THE FACILITIES QUESTION OF THE WEEK: 

Which states limit charter school lease or rent payments? 

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Follow the Money.  It is our tax money that is at risk.  Charter schools may be located in public school buildings, other public entities or privately owned.  How the construction of these buildings is financed can be difficult to discover.  Privately owned buildings may be leased to education management companies without much oversight on the cost.  Questions arise about:                                                                                  

  • Private Ownership: lack of transparency, conflict of interest 
  • Appropriate Building Standards
  • Excessive Payments:  bonds, leases, interest rates to interrelated real estate, loan, and educational management companies.

 

FINANCE AND FACILITY STANDARDS  DO EXIST, OR DO THEY?  Check the NCSL site for your state.   Charter School Facilities. Are states regulating the real estate deals for charters?

 

LEASE AND RENT CONTROVERSIES GO HAND-IN-HAND WITH FOR-PROFIT MANAGEMENT COMPANIES. 

If you cannot find it here, do a Google search for your state’s ‘charter school lease payments’.  Let us know what you find out.

CHARTER SCHOOL CAPITAL FUNDING: http://www.fldoe.org/core/fileparse.php/7568/urlt/0073611-tax.pdf