By Valerie Strauss Valerie Strauss Reporter covering education, foreign affairs Email Bio Follow May 3 at 11:03 AM [There’s a backlash against charter schools. What’s happening and why.]
Those are the bare bones of the complicated story, which has riled up some residents in Washington County, which has a population of fewer than 17,000 at the last census estimate. Among those who are agitated: the mayor of the county seat, Chatom. Not only has it become clear that charters are not a panacea for public education — as supporters had claimed — but also many school systems have found they are losing millions of dollars from their education budgets when public dollars are directed to charters. And that is happening even though the fixed costs for traditional public school systems have not changed.
He said some students are already enrolling, although he would not answer queries about how many. It’s fewer than 50, according to a person with knowledge inside the Washington County School District. The school’s application says it expects to have 260 students in its first year. The application had other problems, according to Betty Brackin, who works for Washington County Public Schools as coordinator of federal programs. It says area businesses can’t find enough workers, something Becton said, too. But Brackin noted that Washington County was just named an ACT Work Ready Community for reaching 100 percent of its work-ready goals. ACT Work Ready Communities are a project of ACT Inc.
Eric Mackey, Alabama’s superintendent of education, did not respond to requests from The Washington Post for comment about how the commission operates. Becton’s group won’t own the school. The deed for Woodland Prep is held by Woodland Charter Holdings, a Utah company that has one registered agent, a woman named Jennifer Lind who is identified on the website of the for-profit American Charter Development company as its office manager. She did not respond to phone and email queries for this article. According to records kept by the State of Utah, Woodland Charter Holdings also has just one registered executive: American Charter Development.
Woodland Prep will be operated by a company based in Sugar Land, Tex., called Unity School Services , whose founder and chief executive officer is Soner Tarim.
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