Post by pavel on Jan 14, 2016 22:28:29 GMT -6
Financially strapped school districts in Baton Rouge, Lafayette and elsewhere are being hurt by rising amounts of dollars being moved from districts to charter schools, the executive director of the Louisiana School Boards Association and others said Thursday.
In the past three years, local education dollars rerouted from traditional public schools to charter schools rose by 39 percent in the East Baton Rouge Parish school district — to $28.3 million — and 73 percent in the Jefferson Parish school system — to $4.5 million, according to state figures.
Local dollars redirected from the Lafayette Parish school system to charter schools rose from nearly $460,000 two years ago to $9.6 million during the past school year.
Scott Richard, who leads the LSBA, said the trend points up the need to ban the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from overriding local decisions on charter schools.
Read more: theadvocate.com/news/14571694-64/critics-say-charter-schools-draining-vital-dollars
In the past three years, local education dollars rerouted from traditional public schools to charter schools rose by 39 percent in the East Baton Rouge Parish school district — to $28.3 million — and 73 percent in the Jefferson Parish school system — to $4.5 million, according to state figures.
Local dollars redirected from the Lafayette Parish school system to charter schools rose from nearly $460,000 two years ago to $9.6 million during the past school year.
Scott Richard, who leads the LSBA, said the trend points up the need to ban the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education from overriding local decisions on charter schools.
Read more: theadvocate.com/news/14571694-64/critics-say-charter-schools-draining-vital-dollars