KXTV,  our local ABC station, has issued an exposé about charter schools in the Twin Rivers Unified School District, with a series they call "The Wild West of Education". In the series, ABC10 documents how the Highlands Community Charter and Technical Schools in the TRUSD, a charter school for adults,  "receives hundreds of millions of public-school funding spent lavishly and with minimal oversight."

You can watch the series at this link. Here are some of the concerns they raised:

• conflicts of interest, including an elected school board member using her “position of power to influence decisions”
• questionable work culture
• dubious spending
• lax oversight
• autonomous behavior that primarily benefits management

Hmm.... That doesn't sound good, does it? What do you think?