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One of the citys highest-performing charter school groups, the Noble Street Charter School Network, has raked in nearly $400,000 over the last two school years by fining students for disciplinary infractions, a group of Chicago Public School students and parents said this morning.
The Noble Street Charter School Network collected $188,647 in fines, which it calls fees, during the 2010-2011 school year across the 10 high schools it operates. Since the 2008-2009 school year, the organization has collected $386,745 in detention fees and behavior classes.
Noble schools charge students $5 for behavior infractions like bringing chips to school and not looking a teacher in the eye, and students with multiple infractions must pay $140 to take a behavior-improvement course during summer school, according to information obtained by a trio of student, parent and legal advocacy groups.
The findings are based on information obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and were released this morning by the Voices of Youth in Chicago Education, a student-led advocacy group; Parents United for Responsible Education, a parents rights organization, and Advancement Project, a community-based legal action group.
more . . . http://www.chicagonewscoop.org/charter-operator-fines-students-for-infractions/
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Or maybe just a few mild LD kids. Certainly no autistic kids.
I can't believe how much money they have made off this despicable practice.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)His soulmates..
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Just put the kids in boxes.
spanone
(135,898 posts)no sarcasm
saras
(6,670 posts)Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)The evil teachers unions stood in the way of a poor threadbare charter operator from fining urban school kids for eating Flaming Hot Cheetos. Keen thinking, charter folks!