Who Was Propping Up Washington State Charter Schools After Supreme Court Ruling?
I finally received one charter school's documents that I had requested via public disclosure; these were from Green Dot's Destiny Middle School. Now it took some doing because initially a couple of charters did not want to give me anything, saying they weren't public schools. When I pressed them on handing over documents that were created during the time that they were charter schools, then I got an okay but was put off to "March or April." I'm still waiting for a couple of other schools. (I note that Rep. Gerry Pollet also got this runaround which should tell you something.) Green Dot itself only sent them to me in hard copy which, of course, makes it more difficult to copy from and track. They said they have to buy special "software" to send them to me electronically. Guess what was in the huge stack of documents? A letter dated October 2015 to a law firm saying that Green Dot would be sending them public disclosure documents...electron...