Reader comments
Idaho charters face hurdles finding homes

Anonymous | 8:07 a.m. Dec. 28, 2008

Just let the Utah legislators know.

They will pass a bill that will allow themselves to go build your charter schools for you at a nice profit for them!

Anonymous | 7:46 p.m. Dec. 28, 2008

lol

JMT | 10:08 p.m. Dec. 28, 2008

Have seen some of the contracting issues that go on in school construction, do you think people are building them for free? A high school runs upwards of $40 million. Do you think the contractors on those buildings are driving used monte carlos?

The most expensive charter school in the entire state runs 40% of what is paid for one high school. That is American Leadership Academy, which serves 1,300 kids.

Admitted some of the legislators that were involved in this were pretty mean about how they did things. Even so, you fail to address the whole issue. The issue is not the profit. The issue is the conflict of interest. Very legitimate.

The angle you have taken is just not accurate. Charter schools are far cheaper to build than traditional. And in both cases, the contractors make profits.

Let's be clear about this.

Add your comment

Comments are monitored. Any comments found to be abusive, offensive, off-topic, misrepresentative, more than 200 words or containing URLs will not be posted.

Words Remaining

E-mail address: For internal use only. We may want to contact you to publish your comment (not your e-mail address) in the newspaper or for a separate story idea.