Florida: Imprisoned Charter School Owner Seeks to Reduce Repayments to District He Cheated

Florida “Schools of Hope” Law Intensifies School Privatization

Over the past 33 years privately-operated charter schools have seized billions of dollars in public funds and public property that rightly belong to public schools. This neoliberal parasitism has been achieved mainly through state laws and schemes that legalize and normalize such wealth transfers in the name of “school choice,” “parent empowerment,” “accountability,” “competition,” and “results.” One of the most recent and egregious examples of …

Florida: Imprisoned Charter School Owner Seeks to Reduce Repayments to District He Cheated

The owner of the Newpoint Charter School chain in Florida was convicted of racketeering and fraud in 2018, involving six different school districts. He pocketed millions of dollars that should have been spent on students and teachers. Ordered to pay back his ill-gotten gains, he now claims he can’t make the payments because his wife took most of his assets when they divorced. Florida spends billions of dollars on charter schools and vouchers, wi…