Legislature thwarting progress on air quality
DallasNews.com | News for Dallas, Texas | Latest News: "As lawmakers in Austin consider rewriting Texas charter school laws – including one proposal that could close dozens of them – the Rylie Faith Family charter offers a sober lesson on what it takes to reform troubled charter schools.
In 2000, as problems escalated at the Rylie charter schools, the state dispatched a retired public school superintendent to sort it all out.
Jack Ammons found the schools $400,000 in debt and operating without a budget. Family members and friends of the founders populated the payroll. There was no coherent curriculum, and no urgency to improve.
'They were basically running a $5 million ... [business] with just a checkbook,' Dr. Ammons said. 'And they were spending [taxpayer] money like it was their own."
In 2000, as problems escalated at the Rylie charter schools, the state dispatched a retired public school superintendent to sort it all out.
Jack Ammons found the schools $400,000 in debt and operating without a budget. Family members and friends of the founders populated the payroll. There was no coherent curriculum, and no urgency to improve.
'They were basically running a $5 million ... [business] with just a checkbook,' Dr. Ammons said. 'And they were spending [taxpayer] money like it was their own."
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