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Andre Agassi: Raising Hundreds of Millions As His Own Charter is One of the Worst Nevada Schools; by Diane Ravitch

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The ultimate tax payer scam "The Aggasi CHARTER SCHOOL which isn’t really about kids but about cold hard cash. Andre Agassi, one-time tennis sta rowns a flagship charter school -- one of the Nevada's persistently lowest performing schools. Agassi has become a very wealthy man selling his “charter doctrine.” Now, his business has raised nearly $300 million to build charter schools around the country. When a 'well-known' 'celeb' with a  name  preaches charter doctrine all over he United States, but is  actually  profiteering by selling real estate-- a la Trump-- it is TIME that taxpayers  demand  accountability and transparency! " With legislature across the  nation handing over public money for education to private charter schools with NO oversight by professional educators, then this nation is  over. When the children go down, and charlatans 'get 'em young, so goes the country. 

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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