This coming
fall, Concept Schools will be adding two more charter schools to its
collection. Both are in Chicago and come courtesy
of the Chicago
school board members who voted to approve
the two proposals in January.
The promotional
brochure designed to attract student enrollment states: “Concept serves 12,000
students in 30 high-performing charter schools across the Midwest, including 3
schools in Chicago.”
(1.0
MB pdf) But Concept Schools is intentionally misleading Chicago’s parents.
The
following tables display academic, graduation, and enrollment figures for
Concept’s 19 schools in Ohio.
Note the large
number of “F” ratings that appear on their most recent Ohio
School Report Cards (click “C”, then “Community Schools”).
Note the
low student retention at the four high schools. The enrollment figures come from
the database
maintained by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
In no way
can Concept truthfully claim that its 30 charter schools are high-performing!
Community members
should seriously consider filing a false advertising complaint with the City of
Chicago’s Department
of Business Affairs & Consumer Protection or with the local Better Business Bureau. At the very
least, Chicago Public Schools should be challenged for allowing Concept to
perpetrate this type of fraud.
For additional
evidence of Concept’s *consumer* deception, look at the deep
analysis of state test scores, SAT and ACT scores, and graduation rates in the
aptly named 2011 presentation by CASILIPS: “The Concept Schools model: success in education
or success in marketing?”
And to
learn more about Concept Schools, watch this.
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