Indianapolis superintendent accuses charter schools of acquiring state aid under false pretenses

From The Indianapolis Star: Indianapolis School Superintendent Eugene White is accusing charter schools of sending unwanted students back to Indianapolis Public Schools after the charters have claimed a full year's worth of state aid attached to a student's enrollment. White says the district has testimony from the families of 20 children who recently transferred from charter schools to district campuses for reasons White labeled as questionable. He contends that charter schools find ways to get kids to transfer back to district schools after the state's September "count" day, which sets the enrollment figures upon which state funding is based. That way the charters can collect more than $8,000 in state aid for each student while the district must educate them without the funding.