Vanelle Maunalei Love - Hawaii Editorials

Yep.
The DOE does not want these schools to succeed, yet they do.
Everyone who slams charters should read this with an open mind.
There is a BETTER way, and not the way it's always been done.

I don't understand why the DOE can publicly discriminate against charter schools by not providing equal funding for students. I pay taxes and I want my tax money to be used equitably. Why are we, the citizens, putting up with this type of blatant discrimination? It seems the reserved money pads the DOE administrative nests but it should be going to successful and frugal charter school's coffers!

Please fund charters...they are important

Concerned Tax Payer wrote:

I don't understand why the DOE can publicly discriminate against charter schools by not providing equal funding for students. I pay taxes and I want my tax money to be used equitably. Why are we, the citizens, putting up with this type of blatant discrimination? It seems the reserved money pads the DOE administrative nests but it should be going to successful and frugal charter school's coffers!

The funding restriction comes from the state office of Budget and Finance, not the DOE.

reader wrote:

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The funding restriction comes from the state office of Budget and Finance, not the DOE.

BS. DOE analysts tell legislators how to think about charter schools because legislators can't think for themselves on educational issues.
The DOE has its fingers in the charter school budget, no ifs ands or buts.
Who tells B&F how to budget for education?
Former DOE analysts.
Who tells the legislature how to budget for the DOE and charters?
A current DOE analyst.
It stinks on ice.

I even got a name for you.
BRIAN HALLETT.

Why do we continue to put up with this? Brian Hallett should be interviewed. Who directed him to sabotage the budget for charter schools? Which legislator did he work for?

Donna Mercado Kim

http://www.normansakamoto.com/documents/05-8-...

$12,100 per student in the DOE budget.

Public charter kids get $5,500.

Sakamoto is running for LG.

He better fix this mess, fix Sen. Kim, and fix the DOE or he'll never be able to win.

Hooser is a better candidate anyway.

“Curtis Muraoka (Commentary,“State shortchanges charter school students,” Sept. 3) correctly points out that in addition to the $5,536 per pupil charter schools receive from the state,“the DOE provides special education and other services to charter schools.” He valued the special education services at $2,750 per student.
However, he failed to address the magnitude of either DOE expenditures for these “other services” or charter schools’ other sources of funding.
Muraoka’s 2007 analysis ignores that just five of the “other services” paid by the DOE for charter schools cost $2,123 per student.
This amount represents the DOE’s covering charter schools’ costs for insurance and their employer share of employee health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, and pension plan payments.
In addition, in 2007 the Department provided nearly $4.4 million of direct funds to charter schools through programs such as Impact Aid, Title I, teacher quality, Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
Furthermore, Muraoka overlooks millions that charter schools receive directly from non-DOE sources such as the OHA and KSBE. These other funds should be factored into per-pupil spending as they are for the DOE.
While Muraoka’s facts are fuzzy, what should be clear is that the DOE is concerned about the achievement of all students, whether attending charter or noncharter schools.
Brian Hallett
Administrator, Budget Branch, state Department of Education”

The rest of the story wrote:

“Curtis Muraoka (Commentary,“State shortchanges charter school students,” Sept. 3) correctly points out that in addition to the $5,536 per pupil charter schools receive from the state,“the DOE provides special education and other services to charter schools.” He valued the special education services at $2,750 per student.
However, he failed to address the magnitude of either DOE expenditures for these “other services” or charter schools’ other sources of funding.
Muraoka’s 2007 analysis ignores that just five of the “other services” paid by the DOE for charter schools cost $2,123 per student.
This amount represents the DOE’s covering charter schools’ costs for insurance and their employer share of employee health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, and pension plan payments.
In addition, in 2007 the Department provided nearly $4.4 million of direct funds to charter schools through programs such as Impact Aid, Title I, teacher quality, Safe and Drug-Free Schools.
Furthermore, Muraoka overlooks millions that charter schools receive directly from non-DOE sources such as the OHA and KSBE. These other funds should be factored into per-pupil spending as they are for the DOE.
While Muraoka’s facts are fuzzy, what should be clear is that the DOE is concerned about the achievement of all students, whether attending charter or noncharter schools.
Brian Hallett
Administrator, Budget Branch, state Department of Education”

He works for senate and DOE???????
Can you say
c-o-n-f-l-i-c-t
o-f
i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t???????

Charter Parent wrote:

<quoted text>He works for senate and DOE???????
Can you say
c-o-n-f-l-i-c-t
o-f
i-n-t-e-r-e-s-t???????

Seemed to me that Brian Hallett's comments were informative. If it is true that charter schools have under reporting their funding level as Brian Hallett reported then what does that says about their integrity.
Wouldn't a charter parent have a "conflict of interest" in wanting more money funneled to their kid's school even if that meant not disclosing how much taxpayers were already spending?

alice wrote:

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Seemed to me that Brian Hallett's comments were informative. If it is true that charter schools have under reporting their funding level as Brian Hallett reported then what does that says about their integrity.
Wouldn't a charter parent have a "conflict of interest" in wanting more money funneled to their kid's school even if that meant not disclosing how much taxpayers were already spending?

a parent is a taxpyer, hon. the doe is a tax spender. parents in the horrid doe should be angry.

Where can I find these figures of which Sakamoto Sez speaks?

Since funding is so tremendously important for charter schools why then is the latest state budget information on charter school website over three years old?
http://www.hcsao.org/school/funding