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Sink or Swim: Mavericks High Schools claim to help trouble students, but questions persist about their quest for profits from taxpayer money

Number 25226
Subject Education
Source Village Voice Media/New Times
State Illinois
Year 2011
Publication Date 12/29/11
Summary The investigation reveals that the for-profit charter school Mavericks in Education Florida drive for profit conflicts with the company's mission of helping at-risk kids graduate from high school. Maverick's graduation rates are abysmal, former employees allege its attendance records and grades are falsified, and the schcools receive "incomplete" grades from the Florida Department of Education. Using taxpayer funds, the company is promising thousands of kinds an education that it does not deliver.
Category Contest Entry
Pages 7
Keywords high school, mavericks, falsified, grades, frank biden
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