tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post6749907135840020802..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Cyber Schools Slammed by Charters (Again)Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-1869929561934936002016-08-03T04:29:04.017-04:002016-08-03T04:29:04.017-04:00The link seems to be to someone at Fordham named T...The link seems to be to someone at Fordham named Terry Ryan, not Mike Petrilli.Rebecca deCocahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13168718846105012814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-7863236829548312632016-08-02T13:31:21.124-04:002016-08-02T13:31:21.124-04:00Mike Petrilli, the guy running the show over at Fo...Mike Petrilli, the guy running the show over at Fordham, has also been critical of other aspects of the charter school/school privatization industry. In response to his public voicing of these concerns, Petrilli has gotten slammed back by charter school operators, who otherwise had been Petrilli's allies.<br /><br />Petrilli weighed in on the controversy of self-dealing that is rampant in the charter school industry, where charter executives are in charge of charter school orgs that are technically non-profit, but they nevertheless contract out services to for-profit companies for which those executives (or their relative(s)) are the sole or partial owners. That’s a lot MORE money on top of a charter school executive's already excessive salary.<br /><br />Petrilli also condemned the problem of nepotism, where multiple family members of a charter school CEO (or some other charter school higher-up) are each hired at six-figure salaries.<br /><br />What's interesting is the charter school industry's response to Mike Petrilli’s expressions of dismay at these phenomena — and at the outrageous charter school executive compensation in general. The otherwise enthusiastically pro-charter Petrilli warns his charter buddies that, when the public gets wind of them, these corrupt practices will damage the charter school industry's brand with the general public, without which the charter industry will fail to survive, or at least expand.<br /><br />Petrilli’s words of caution are below, and, as Petrilli relates, they were met with severe blowback from “tone-deaf” (Petrilli’s words) charter school executives kvetching back,<br /><br />“None of your business, Mike! Or anyone else’s business!!”:<br /><br />http://edexcellence.net/commentary/education-gadfly-daily/ohio-gadfly-daily/2012/should-we-care-how-much-money.html<br /><br />- - - - - - - - -<br /><br />MIKE PETRILLI:<br /><br />“Charter schools also need to be equally aware about what leaders receive in compensation, and how this will be perceived in the larger community, which leads me to the recent story in the Dayton Daily News. That paper ran a story on the compensation paid to a family running a charter management organization that serves about 2,000 kids in seven Ohio charters.<br /><br />“The paper reported that ...<br /><br />" ‘Tax records obtained by the Daily News show CEO Pammer-Satow received a base pay of $168,466 in 2010 along with a $60,000 bonus and other compensation valued at $25,573. Her husband, COO Clinton Satow, received a base pay of$126,000, bonus of $45,000 and $14,000 in other compensation. Other members of the family are also employed by the management company in various capacities.'<br /><br />“The Dayton Daily News reporter called me and asked for my reaction about ‘a couple making over $400,000 a year’ to run seven charter schools?<br /><br />“I said, ‘That’s tough to defend.’ I also went on to comment, ‘At a minimum they (those high-paid charter executives) are politically tone-deaf to the realities of perception out in the community.’<br /><br />“My comments have upset some in Ohio’s charter community who argue that as the schools perform decently, why should I or anyone else care what the leaders are paid?<br /><br />“My reaction to this question is that charter schools are only viable as long as they receive political support. As such, do stories about families paying themselves more than $400,000 a year in public tax dollars to run a handful of charters hurt support for charter schools?<br /><br />“I think they do, but I’d value receiving comments back from readers. Should we care how much money charter leaders make?” Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16911854468188214107noreply@blogger.com