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Bargain Basement Teachers?
With low salaries and poor working conditions, Citizens of the World Charter Schools is driving away high-quality, experienced educators.
“We recognize that our staff, particularly our teachers, are the cornerstone of our schools and our most valuable asset.”
– Citizens of the World Charter School
Charter schools not only receive funds from the same sources as LAUSD schools, but they also have access to funding sources that our public schools do not have. For example, during the pandemic, Congress created the Payroll Protection Program as a way to help small businesses get through the crisis but then allowed charter schools to receive this money. While public schools could not take advantage of this program, Citizens of the World Charter Schools received $2,000,000.
Many charter schools also have access to donor networks of people who want to do everything possible to ensure that these publicly funded private schools “win” the competition against public schools. If these schools can attract the right benefactors they can provide programs to draw students away from their…
