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In June, state officials in Ohio told public charter school operators in Cleveland that they would be receiving significant increases in Title 1 money, federal funding designed to help boost the reading and math skills of children from poor families. Some public charters schools put those allocation figures into their budgets and hired new teachers at a rate normally beyond their budgets. In all, public charter schools in Cleveland saw their Title 1 allocations slashed more than $5 million from the June projections the state gave them. In several cases, the drop was more than $250,000. "It's caused chaos for some, if not all, of Cleveland's charter schools," said William Simms of the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools. "Somebody should be accountable for what happened. The charter schools are, at least, owed an explanation."
Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer
Date: 09/25/2008
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