Subject: Kasich’s Charter Accountability Office Failed to Police Imagine Charters
From: Brian Rothenberg <[email-masked]>
To: john podesta <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 11:02:51 +0000

Press Advisory from ProgressOhio
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                               **Press Advisory**
                                     Contact: Brian Rothenberg, ProgressOhio
   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                        614.207.3237 | [email-masked]
       Kasich's Charter Accountability Office Failed to Police Imagine Charters
      Accountability Chief David Hansen Served as Board Member for Imagine
                                     School

   Oct. 12, 2014

   COLUMBUS -- After taking millions in campaign contributions from charter
   schools and their allies, Gov. John Kasich failed to take steps to crack
   down on abusive lease arrangements between Imagine schools and its
   subsidiary. The leases leave little money for classroom instruction.

   According to a Sunday report in the Columbus Dispatch, five Imagine
   schools in Franklin County received a combined $20.2 million in the
   2012-13 school year.  A quarter of that money -- more than $5.1 million --
   was spent on rent, all under long-term leases with Imagine subsidiary
   SchoolHouse Finance. A sixth school, Imagine Integrity Academy, spent 81
   percent of its $440,009 in state aid on rent.

   ProgressOhio Executive Director Brian Rothenberg will release information
   on leases in place at Imagine schools in Akron, Canton, Cleveland, Dayton
   and Toledo, and will call for changes at .the Office of Quality School
   Choice and Funding, now headed by David Hansen.

   WHEN: Oct. 13, 2014 1:30 pm

   WHERE: ProgressOhio | 172 East State Street |6th Floor | Columbus, Ohio
   43215

   WHAT: Press Conference on Imagine Schools' Abusive Leases

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