Thursday, January 26, 2012

Republican Disasters

>>>>  We've heard this many times in the past---
Dispatch:

A charter-school treasurer from New Albany owes the state more than $600,000 because he illegally spent tax dollars at a Columbus school and two others in Ohio, the auditor of state says.
Carl Shye was the school treasurer for several charter schools statewide, including the now-defunct Montessori Renaissance Experience. An audit of that school’s finances found that Shye collected more than $112,000 in tax dollars meant for students even though the school had already closed....
....The school was closed in 2009 because of financial difficulties. If not for those problems, Montessori Renaissance Experience would have been forced to close because of poor academic performance.
This is the fourth time in six months that the auditor’s office has demanded Shye repay tax money.....


Remember these???????
DailyHerald (12/30/11):
A suburban company seeking to run a taxpayer-funded charter school at Great Lakes Naval Station drew scrutiny from Ohio officials for questionable spending of public money at similar ventures there......

Dispatch (7/23/08):
The defunct charter schools that operated in a Downtown shopping mall owe the state $3.3 million plus interest, a judge has ruled.
It is the largest repayment sought from a closed charter-school operation.
The two Harte Crossroads schools abruptly shut in March 2007, leaving students scrambling to find new schools, teachers without jobs and spotty paperwork about where the money went......

Vindicator (11/18/07):
Ohio charter school operators were given $2.55 million in state and federal planning grants to start 33 schools that were never opened.....


Cincinnati (8/5/08):
A charter school once called "an abject academic failure" by Ohio's attorney general owes the state $2.6 million, according to an audit released today.
Harmony Community School in Roselawn didn't provide necessary documents to show that it met state curriculum requirements, state Auditor Mary Taylor said. The school also didn't have records proving that all teachers were properly licensed.....

Ohio Republicans continue to support charter schools even though most of the charters seem unable to properly educate our students.  The owners of these charter schools seem to be the only ones profiting (along with those Republicans that accept big checks from charter school owners).

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* Still oblivious.  Gov. John Kasich is unable to understand why people are still upset about his plan to move the State of the State speech out of the Statehouse and down to a school in Steubenville, Ohio. The costs, and the inconvenience for taxpayers are just not something Kasich understands.

>>>>>  More layoffs in Ohio----From the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services we have this WARN Notice:
Date Rec'd: 1/26/2012...Company: Fortis Plastics, LLC.....City (County): Wilmington (Clinton)...Number Affected: 119....

* City and county leaders are still furious with the Ohio Department of Transportation's plan to delay road construction in the state for ten years or more.  The delays will continue to create slowdowns and bottlenecks for years to come.

***  Did you catch Gov. Mitch Daniels giving the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union speech?  Did you know that Mitch Daniels worked on the budget for the administration of President George W. Bush?  Now Daniels is trying to blame our economic problems on Obama???  Mitch Daniels helped to guide the country into economic disaster with George W. Bush.  What in the world was Mitch Daniels talking about? He sounded bizarre.

>>>>  I guess when you have a lot of money sometimes you forget where you've put it!
ABC News is reporting that Mitt Romney forget to include his Swiss bank account info in his recent financial disclosures.