Michigan Policast for Monday, December 16, 2019

  In this episode:

* Empty charter schools, racism at Paw Paw Schools

* Changes to Title IX

* Michigan budget deal

* Sinclair Broadcasting changes business model, drops political analysts

* Governor Whitmer for Vice President?

* Larry Inman gets a mistrial

* Haley Stevens and Elissa Slotkin on Trump’s Impeachment

* Transcript

* @GovWhitmer

* @SenMikeShirkey

* @LeeChatfield

* @RepHaleyStevens

* @RepSlotkin

* @PodemsUp

* @LeftOfLansing

 

Jump to:

* Empty charter schools, racism at Paw Paw Schools

* Changes to Title IX

* Michigan budget deal

* Sinclair Broadcasting changes business model, drops political analysts

* Governor Whitmer for Vice President?

* Larry Inman gets a mistrial

* Haley Stevens and Elissa Slotkin on Trump’s Impeachment

* Transcript

* Comments

Empty charter schools, racism at Paw Paw Schools

* Report: Federal government wasted millions of dollars on charter schools that never opened

* Report: Charter Fraud And Waste Worse Than We Thought

* Things didn’t go well when Betsy DeVos was confronted with her department’s charter school fraud

* Report: Asleep at the Wheel: How the Federal Charter Schools Program Recklessly Takes Taxpayers and Students for a Ride

* Report: Still Asleep at the Wheel: How the Federal Charter School Program Results in a Pileup of Fraud and Waste

* Michigan spends $1B on charter schools but fails to hold them accountable (an older article from 2014)

Of the more than 250 schools receiving grant money, at least 109, 42 percent, either never opened or closed. The amount of money wasted on these defunct charters totals $20,272,078. Despite this enormous waste, Burris and Ravitch note with alarm, DeVos’ department in 2018 gave Michigan yet another grant of $47,222,222 to start up or expand even more charters.