Jill Tucker, a reporter for the SF Chronicle, wrote a good article in the SF Examiner on alleged crook, Ben Chavis, the charter school hooligan out of Oakland. Seems the whole Chavis family was dipping into the publicly subsidized charter school trough to line their pockets. The American Indian Charter School was a great chance for Chavis and his family to make a fast buck, as they have been and continue to be for other shady operators.
The incredible part of the story is not that Ben Chavis and his charter school were allegedly a criminal enterprise, far too many are, the most absurd and irrational part of this saga is that Oakland is closing five public schools and moving towards a New Orleans style of charterization that threatens edge out ‘the market’ for public schools. Oakland actually wants to get rid of public schools in favor of charters.
All of this is being planned by Oakland city leaders for they have come to terms with charter schools and
