America's Best Leaders: Mike Feinberg & David Levin, Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP)

My child attends a Charter School in Palm Beach County called G Star School of the Arts that is run by a bunch of inexperienced staff members. Don’t get me wrong most of the teachers are great but the administration is full of crooks. Board meeting are closed to the public and does not have a parent on the board as they should. They are overcrowded and do not care about the welfare of their students. The fire department has been called several times because they use the stairwells as storage. The kids are just a number that means money in their pockets to pay for a soundstage that is not even used. How about you build classrooms not a giant empty building! These people ruined my child’s educational career and I feel the Palm Beach County superintendent of schools needs to step in a takeover and make this a great school.

The worst part is that they take in 504 and ESE students because they make more federal money off of them and that do not have a full time 504 and ESE coordinator. One day a week for 250 ESE kids. That is a disgrace!

I am crying out for help and to let everyone know that there is a story that needs to be exposed in Palm Beach County and that is that G Star School of the Arts is a scam and the kids are suffering because it is run by crooks.

Sincerely,

A Concerned Parent

Sam of FL 1:28PM October 10, 2010

It's great to no longer feel trapped by the public school system. My Grandchild is more upbeat after only a week in the program. Many thanks... and a bright future to you too.

Mary Salazar of OK 6:27PM June 08, 2009

Education isn't rocket science. It is hard, but laudable, work to educate children, but teacher's unions have turned American Public Ed. into a corrupt (but legalized) money-laundering scheme for the sole benefit of a protected class of mediocre monopolists.

Any person should be able to walk into any school, and apply for a teaching job. If they perform, they should be able to keep that job and grow in it.

Unions do the exact opposite. The 'equalize" the excellent with the incompetent, hurting the good and protecting the bad. They raise the cost of education while simultaneously lowering the quality of education.

(that isn't an accident, it is intentional, for that is how they grow their numbers and their political clout.

Numerous books have been written about the evil perpetrated by teacher's unions, which are just another "corporate" C(4)industry as greedy as any oil company. Too bad the "aura" of good will toward teachers extends to their morally filthy "unions."

America is dying at the hand of these corrupt institutions, as our wealth taxed away to fund a bureaucracy, not our kids' education, which suffers at the hand of the forced mediocrity and collectivization of teachers' unions.

Start the battle against these awful institutions now. Build more KIPPs, fire more bad teachers, create more alternatives, and please, please, please, have the decency to get angry at the waste, fraud and abuse in public education.

If you take off your blinders, you will find corruption in some form in every district in America.

Teacher's Unions don't educate your children, they merely make educating them more expensive.

Bruno Behrend of 11:16AM January 09, 2009