The Carroll Cox Show - 12/25/2011
Carroll continues his discussion about Hawaii's charter schools. He attended the audit review meeting on 12/19, and plays a tape of Marian Higa's presentation here. It is very enlightening. She does a great job discussing "Autonomy without Accountability" - auditing both academics and operations. The schools must conduct an Annual Self Evaluation (ASE), but the data is not reliable according to the review panels. A big problem - charter schools are exempt from procurement rules, and Ms. Higa gives several examples of what happens when taxpapyer money is given to schools with no oversight. She also talks about problems at HTA, K12, Inc. and Jeff Piontek
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I am also concerned about HTA. Local visitor bureaus are under the HVCB but 990 filings do not give the public names of responsible folks. They are all non profits with no public reporting.HTA seems the same. How dies a citizen access information and provide criticism of any of these entities. They are all cloaked in secrecy of the tourist trade.
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