“. . . the troubled Arlington-Va. based Imagine Schools”

by David Safier

Literally hundreds of articles around the country have criticized Imagine Schools, the nation's largest chain of charters, for delivering poor education and charging its schools oversized rent on their buildings.

But this is the first time I've seen the for profit EMO referred to as

". . . the troubled Arlington-Va. based Imagine Schools"

The reference isn't from some hotbed of anti-charter liberalism, by the way. It's from the Marietta Daily Journal in Cobb County, Georgia.

There must be no Imagine School trouble right here in River City Arizona, though. Even though we have nearly a quarter of the for profit EMO's schools — 18 out of 75 — I have seen no serious investigation into their finances or their student achievement.

For any journalist interested in looking into the schools, I have collected nearly every article about Imagine Schools for the last few years, including a large number of doozies out of respected dailies (This 3000 word article from NY Times in 2010 may whet your apetite), and have gathered a reasonable amount of information about the Arizona charters. Anyone interested in the subject can leave a comment or send me an email at safier@schooltales.net.