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Mount Bachelor Academy: Ever unconventional, long controversial
When attending a private school for troubled teens, no one thought they would ever have to do such a thing as performing a lap dance while wearing revealing clothes. This method was "therapy" for victims of sexual abuse. Other types of methods were used, such as "sleep deprivation, extended physical labor, verbal abuse and restricting communication between parents and children." The reason these methods could continue was the school was "catering to the wealthy parents who felt they had nothing to lose and students were afraid to reveal the truth."
Tags: FOIA; private school; troubled; teens; students; education; mistreatment; abuse; wealth
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The Tuition Tax Credit
"Arizona began a groundbreaking tax credit program that steered public revenue to private hands to distribute private-school scholarships." This program was to help the poor obtain the same educational opportunities and lower the cost of education. But this isn't the case, which this series reveals in multiple articles, because the poor still attend public schools.
Tags: Tax Credit; Public revenues; Private-school; Scholarships; Poor; Public schools; Nonprofit organizations; State; Federal; Education; Arizona; FOIA
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A Class Apart
This book follows the lives of several students and teachers at Stuyvesant High School, including a 17-year-old heroin addict, a 10-year-old prodigy and a depressed teacher. The school is public but has a rigorous entrance exam that only 3 percent pass. The book addresses racial themes, explores the concept of elitism in education, and examines the education system in the United States.
Tags: high school; education; prodigies; addicts; race; elitism; private schools; public schools; Stuyvesant High School; New York City;
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Buying Democracy
This article documents how physician-turned-businessman James Leininger ratcheted up his efforts to get the State Legislature to pay private school tuition by spending millions to defeat anti-voucher Republicans, "bankrolling what were often misleading campaigns against incumbents" outside his home legislative district.
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The Great Divide
This four-part series reveals that education in Pennsylvania and New Jersey is overwhelmingly not diverse despite 50 years of supposed desegregation. Economic factors often lead to racial segregation, but research shows that "white flight" causes suburban areas to be just as separated as big cities. The private schooling option also steals many white students from public schools. One school district attempts to prove that with effort almost perfect racial balance can be achieved.
Tags: Brown v. Board of Education; school; diversity; minority; black; African American; integration; equal; education; race; segregation; NAACP; white flight; Jim Crow
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School Fire Drills: Sounding the Alarm
This 14-month investigation of more than 700 public and private schools in the state of Ohio revealed that almost a third of the schools failed to comply with Ohio's Revised Code that calls for 10 fire drills each school year. In the past decade, 2,700 school fires in Ohio injured 98 people and caused more than $20.5 million worth of property damage. As a result to this investigation, number of schools failing to comply with the state's fire drill law dropped considerably.
Tags: fire drills; school fires; Ohio school district; fire department; Ohio Revised Code; public schools
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"Public Money, Private Schools"
Ohio standardized testing and the No Child Left Behind program require test scores be disclosed to the public so taxpayers and parents can compare results. Thousands of Ohio children, who receive hundreds of millions of dollars worth of taxpayer-provided services, are exempt from standardized testing, and its sanction and reporting provisions. That's because Ohio law states that non-public elementary schools do not have to administer statewide proficiencies. So taxpayers have no idea what they are getting for their educational dollar going to non-public education.
Tags: private education; public education; standardized testing; No Child Left Behind
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Double Dipping Cops
A police source tipped off this TV station that police officials in charge of murder and rape investigations were doing another job to make a quick buck. These Denver cops were leaving work in the middle of the day to direct traffic outside a private school. After this report aired, there was an investigation into this.
Tags: police; double dipping; rape and murder investigations; Denver Cops; schools; police; police investigations; FOIA
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Tax law little aid to poor students
Pennsylvania passed a law that is not for vouchers. But it's as close as it can be. The legislature approved the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program, "a more complicated means to the same end." "It encourages private businesses to donate their money to nonprofit groups often acting on behalf of private schools, which use the money to pay tuition for students to attend those schools." What do the businesses get out of the deal? Tax credits worth up to 90 cents on the dollar.
Tags: taxes; vouchers; Educational Improvement Tax Credit; money; schools
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Lawyers capitalize on DC school gaps; Special-ed clients sent to affiliated firms
The Post reports on excessive spending by the state special education system. The stories reveal how a law firm has referred the school system to affiliated businesses -- a diagnostic company and two private schools -- that overcharged the state for special education services for disabled students. The school system paid the law firm and the businesses a total of $9.6 million in just one year.
Tags: tuition; disabilities; corporate interests; taxpayers money; conflicts of interest