Tax money lost
The now-defunct Collins Community Charter Middle School in Tallahassee received $540,000 from the Republican-controlled Legislature.
The state never recovered the property or a penny of the funding that otherwise would have gone to public schools. Rev. R.B. Holmes, the minister behind the charter school, said: “If the state gave money to build a building from the ground up, then I think the state should own that building.”
Holmes continued, “But we never got enough money to build a doghouse.” At $540,000, that would have been one heck of a doghouse.
Where is the accountability for this voucher program? With the $70 million in tax dollars that has been lost funding failed charter schools, the public school system could have built real schools.
Carl Buehler, Plantation
This story was originally published December 14, 2015 at 9:17 PM with the headline "Tax money lost."