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new/orphan category:}:

11 24 up to FOUR, 3 is covid

see evil, breakdown of the means of self-correction/moderation

 often a system failure? cobra farm: too simple "solution" to a complex problem?

sub cat jrnlism fail

this categ began as technical fail, eg oil spill

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chris hayes 11 20? 24 neo-con bush cheney took over stovepipe intel cooked --> gulf war 2

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Trump’s appointees are the Trojan horse that could lead to America’s strategic collapse

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Thom Hartmann November 21, 2024...

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neo-con is // neo-libtard [Gt Recession] Bush 43; BOTH MUY MACHO, REDUCTIONISTIC?

aha  GULF WAR 2 POSTER CHILD FOR CASCADE OF FAILS:

JRNLISM FAIL

set off refugee surge --> brexit  [CAMBRIDGE anal ] , alt rt, authoritarian [eu la penn] ; wolfie neo-cons wanted it for decades , cooked the intel, hunted the whistleblowers Plame

SEE WMD BS YELLOWCAKE CHENEY

de-Bathification --? al queda, CNP fail ministry of oil

pvtization blackwater halliburton? tigerswan

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McConn has to own this shit: 1st trump captures the gop, then IMPEACHMENT THEN

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https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/senate-republicans-are-implicated-in-trumps-authoritarian-organized-crime-outfit/

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Senate Republicans are implicated in Trump’s authoritarian organized crime outfit

Written by Joe Conason / Creators Syndicate February 14, 2020

Authoritarian governments almost always operate in a style that resembles organized crime outfits. Despite their ostentatious populism, such regimes exist to enrich thuggish rulers and enable corruption in high places. The Trump administration is a perfect example.

But in order to maintain an aura of legitimacy, especially in a country with democratic norms and traditions, authoritarian bosses constantly proclaim their devotion to justice, their determination to right wrongs, and their adherence to law and order. So even as President Donald Trump and his attorney general, Bill Barr, pervert the legal system to cover up official crimes and protect presidential cronies, they are creating a narrative of justification for those acts.

From the very beginning of the Russia-collusion investigation, Trump has aimed to derail investigations of appointees and associates who might implicate him in criminal activity. He urged James Comey, then the FBI director, to bury the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s unlawful conduct. Then he fired Comey, and later he repeatedly tried to get rid of special counsel Robert Mueller. The Mueller report describes in appalling detail a dozen attempts by Trump to kill the investigation.

At the same time, Trump and his lawyers sent clear messages to all the gang members caught up in the Russia investigation: Don’t talk. We’ll take care of you. They “dangled” pardons to buy silence, with Trump openly considering clemency for the potential witnesses he praised as “brave” and “strong.” His former campaign manager Paul Manafort signed and then violated a cooperation agreement with Mueller. So did Flynn. Longtime adviser and dirty tricks specialist Roger Stone never talked, although he knows everything.

While Trump’s efforts to stop the investigation continued behind the scenes, the public face of his propaganda apparatus declared incessantly that the Russia probe was “a hoax.” Not only was there no reason to investigate Russia; according to Trump, the real culprit in 2016 was Ukraine, which Trump also blamed for framing Manafort. (Discovering, or perhaps inventing, evidence that will “exonerate” Manafort is among the chief preoccupations of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s trips to Ukraine.)

Never mind the meticulously documented findings of nearly every U.S. intelligence agency and official including his own FBI director, the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee and the Mueller investigation. And never mind the multiple convictions of Flynn, Manafort, Stone and others in Trump’s orbit.

The logic of Trump’s ongoing campaign is plain: If the investigation was a fraud, then the prosecutions of Trump associates that emerged from that investigation were, by definition, unjust. But the president can rectify those “injustices” — by granting pardons to the men who could have testified against him.

It’s as if a mob boss had the authority to pardon any underlings who might implicate him (instead of having them whacked).

Emboldened by the Senate’s impeachment acquittal, despite his obvious guilt, Trump now feels free to fulfill the obstruction conspiracy. He is certain that the Senate Republicans — not to mention his wholly owned attorney general — will do nothing to oppose the brazen scheme. They are all implicated in his criminality now.

By uttering a few little squeaks of protest, they help him create a scrim of normality around his gangsterism. So various senators tut-tutted Trump’s latest intervention in the sentencing of Stone as “inappropriate.” And so, Barr himself complained publicly that Trump’s tweeting about the Stone prosecution makes his job “impossible,” which simply means that Barr and the Republicans prefer assaults on democratic norms to occur in the back room, without too much noise.

When lawful government is restored someday, Trump may have to answer for having misused the pardon power for obstruction of justice. There was firm precedent in the Justice Department’s investigation of former President Bill Clinton’s pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Until then, the American system of justice and constitutional liberty will remain in the gravest jeopardy.

truscott

https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/were-slipping-further-into-fascism-as-trump-indulges-all-his-worst-instincts-with-the-help-of-his-toadies/

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trump faLLOUT: EPIC FAIL DOOM TIP PT

https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-deforestation-unrecoverable-tipping-point-2639358982.html

The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is being clear cut so rapidly — a rate of three football fields per minute — that it is approaching a "tipping point" from which it will not recover,according to the Guardian.lnx]

As trees are lost, researchers said there is a risk that large areas could transition from rainforest to savannah as they lose the ability to make their own rainfall from evaporation and from plants giving off watervapor, according to Newsweek.

A transition on that scale could have significant implications for global warming since the rainforest absorbs vast amounts of atmospheric carbon. Recent research has shown the potential for massive tree plantings to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere.

"It's very important to keep repeating these concerns. There are a number of tipping points which are not far away," said Philip Fearnside, a professor at Brazil's National Institute of Amazonian Research, as the Guardian reported. "We can't see exactly where they are, but we know they are very close. It means we have to do things right away. Unfortunately that is not what is happening. There are people denying we even have a problem."

The alarming rate of deforestation and its acceleration confirms suspicions that new president Jair Bolsonaro has allowed illegal land invasion, logging and burning. Bolsonaro has called his own government's satellite data lies.The president's comments followed preliminary satellite data that showed more than 400 square miles of the rainforest had been cleared in the first half of July — an increase of 68 percent from the entire month of July last year, according to the BBC.

Bolsonaro, the far right politician who has said he is fulfilling a mission from God, dismissed concerns expressed by European Union members and called it hypocritical since so many European forests have been wiped out.

"You have to understand that the Amazon is Brazil's, not yours," Bolsonaro said, as the Guardian reported. "If all this devastation you accuse us of doing was done in the past the Amazon would have stopped existing, it would be a big desert."

The DETER-B satellite system that the Brazilian government started to use in 2015 to track deforestation has shown that the record setting July deforestation is on pace to clear enough forest to fit New York City twice by the end of the month.

The DETER satellite data is considered preliminary. Detailed figures are released at the end of the year when data from other satellites and observatories is also collected, according to Newsweek.

"Unfortunately, it is absurd, but it should not catch anyone by surprise. President Jair Bolsonaro and minister Ricardo Salles are dismantling our socio-environmental policies," said Carlos Rittl, the executive secretary of the Climate Observatory, an NGO formed by a coalition of environmental groups, as the Guardian reported.

After years of conservation, Brazil's environmental track record has nose-dived in the first seven months of Bolsonaro's administration. He has given environmental oversight to the agriculture minister, who is the leader of a farming lobby. His foreign minister called climate science a part of a global Marxist plot.The government has invited businesses to register land counter-claims in areas that are protected nature reserves, indigenous territories and areas dedicated to sustainable production by native forest people, according to the Guardian.

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2 big fails uncorrected led to djt: gt recess and gulf war w

...curry salon

After the Iraq war, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown appointed a commission to investigate how exactly his country stumbled into such a tragic fiasco.The Chilcot Report (for Lord John Chilcot, who led the commission) was an account of political bungling and deception as thorough and damning as the Pentagon Papers. Its 2016 release made former Prime Minister Tony Blair, chief accomplice to George W. Bush in that disastrous undertaking, into a social leper. Unlike Robert Mueller, Chilcot had an absolute right to interview any witness and compel production of any document he felt he needed; nearly all his interviews were done in public, and he delivered his report direct to the people of the United Kingdom.

The war was hatched in America by ideologues bent on exporting democracy via bribery and force of arms.  In the eyes of many, it surpasses Vietnam as the worst foreign policy blunder in our nation’s history. In a speech to the nation summarizing the case for it, Bush leaned heavily on the only possible rationale for an unprovoked attack on a sovereign nation:

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.

For months, his vice president and national security adviser peddled “evidence” of nuclear and chemical weapons. Before his speech, Bush was told by experts at the Department of Energy that the evidence was false, but he kept the news to himself. To this day it remains unproven who was lying, and who was only lied to.

The Congressional Budget Office says the war cost the U.S. $2 trillion. Nobel Prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz puts it at $3 trillion. Nearly 4,500 U.S. military personnel died there, and tens of thousands more suffered disabling physical and psychic wounds. Iraqi casualties remain in dispute — as Gen. Tommy Franks informed reporters, “We don’t do body counts” — but estimates range from 180,000 to more than a million deaths. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees counted 3.7 million refugees. Americans think the war’s over. Last month, it took 166 Iraqi lives.

In 2009, as Gordon Brown was launching the Chilcot Inquiry, Barack Obama was being pressured to take a similar look back at how America was lured or lied into war. Obama took a different tack. Rather than appoint a commission with plenipotentiary powers, he did nothing. Aides said he thought retracing Bush’s path to war would make it hard to forge bipartisan alliances with Republicans.

Similar concerns colored his take on the other huge crisis he inherited, the 2008 Wall Street meltdown that leveled the global economy. No one knows its true cost, only that the number exceeds most human minds’ ability to conceptualize. A Government Accountability Office study put the U.S. cost at $22 trillion.

Social and political costs were even higher. Post-meltdown austerity measures, following on decades of stagnant wages just as millions of Middle East refugees flooded Europe, rocking center-left coalitions that had ruled the West since World War II. Far-right political parties the old order was too polite to label fascist began to metastasize. Britain got Brexit. America got Trump.

When the crisis broke, Obama was running for president. His closing stump speech was a litany of vows to curb corruption; above all, to punish Wall Street fraud. His administration never brought a case. Three years later, he went on “60 Minutes” to explain that the worst behavior wasn’t actually illegal. Given his dazzling intellect and access to wise counsel, one assumes he knew that what he said wasn’t true.

Privately, Obama revealed his thinking. He worried that prosecutions would hurt banks. He worried he’d lose personal support in the business community. (A major culprit, Goldman Sachs, was also his biggest donor.) And he worried he’d lose business backing vital to building bipartisan coalitions in Congress.

Lying was as much a cause of the Great Recession as it was of the Iraq war. Loan originators lied about applicants’ creditworthiness. Investment bankers lied about the toxicity of mortgage portfolios. Standard and Poor’s and Moody’s and Fitch all lied. So did Obama and most of Congress, which meant major reforms, excepting only Elizabeth Warren’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, were designed to curb “irrational exuberance,” not the immorality at the root of what befell us.

Instead of going to prison, bankers got bailed out, while homeowners got betrayed. Like the meltdown itself, the government’s response helped incite a populist revolt. Obama and Clinton Democrats were deaf to it, but Trump’s final 2016 TV ad began “Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt political establishment.” In the last week, it replaced nearly every other ad he had up in the industrial Midwest.

These failures — to investigate the origins of the Iraq war and the Great Recession and punish the culprits — were not anomalies. After 9/11, no one had the stomach to hold George W. Bush to account for ignoring intelligence reports on his desk, so the bipartisanship crowd invented a structural failure and wasted years rearranging intelligence and homeland security bureaucracies, resulted in a new Cabinet-level post, the Director of National Intelligence, who lacks the authority to direct anyone to do anything.

It happened after the 2000 election: Media barons set out to fix the exit polls, Congress set out to rid the world of hanging chads via nifty paperless ballots and the Democratic Party set out to rid the world of Ralph Nader.Thus, a pioneering GOP foray into voter suppression went nearly unremarked. Despite butterfly ballots, staged riots, a chief election official doing double duty as a Bush campaign chair and a Supreme Court concocting phony equal protection claims to rob Al Gore of real due process, Bush was clothed in legitimacy, leaving millions of Americans to conclude that the system was indeed rigged.

I doubt we’d be saddled with Trump had we not come to resemble him: way too materialistic, more than a bit narcissistic, unfocused, unlettered, infantile, even amoral. Our responses to these crises suggest that we also share a high tolerance for lying, a limited capacity for self-examination and an unspoken belief that the rich and powerful are above the law. Which brings us to the latest in our recent line of failures to look either evil or ourselves in the eye, the Mueller Report....

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badass ppt 3 kinds of fail:

1) economic, recession, depression (bubble burst, system in runaway mode, no balance)

2) ecological: Dust Bowl (overlaps with above), exxon valdez /gulf oil spill [deregulation, greed cut corners on worker and nature safety: nature commons is a buffer, but free to pollute, externaliies)

3) political fail:  massive inequality (Matthew Effect, amplifying fdbk) rich corrupt political process; white rural working class feel same hopelessness ghetto felt for decades (no riots, but own drug epidemic of despair).  inequality led to instability that allowed russian trolls to tweak enough ppl to vote against their own interests (drain the swamp, bring back coal and mfg jobs w/ tariffs]; Cambr anal target swingables in swing states?

aha war on drugs is sys fail; opium record amounts in afghanistan (which is a regional issue, other countries are stakeholders [Paki intel works at cross purposes?)

drug WAR is wrong metaphor: build a wall to keep the bad guys out; ignores the demand (ppl are sick, need treatment); opioid epidemic of despair (often starts with pain med for ppl hurt at work; trump no $ for new opioid pgm (tho recently rolled on going after co's?); opioid sold as non-addictive, data hidden like tobacco?

see dana m on traps: problem with drug war is that the obvous tactic is to push harder, arrest more, harsher mandatory sentnences (3 strikes) but it just reduces supply which raises the price which provides more resources to smuggle and incentives to use violence (so the answer is surrender? truce?) legalize? libtard reductionism? (junkies who kill themselves are "externalities/ collateral dmamage, stupid poor brn ppl who take themselves out of the darwinian/american pool?)

connection between militarism and drug addiction? 4 horse [heroin pun] war on terror

war on drugs big under nixon, Reagan and bush 43 --> PIC (Clinton triangulation)

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https://www.ecowatch.com/farmed-salmon-escape-into-the-wild-2594231035.html

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https://www.ecowatch.com/methane-leak-lawsuit-california-2594248435.html

major California utility has agreed to pay nearly $120 million in a civil settlement over a huge methane leak that forced thousands to flee their homes in 2015.

The settlement between Southern California Gas Co. and the city of Los Angeles will pay for emissions mitigation, a long-term health study, and increased safety measures from the 2015 leak at the Aliso Canyon natural gas storage field, the largest single release of methane in U.S. history.

More than 100,000 metric tons of methane were released into the air over a nearly four-month period during the disaster, prompting complaints of headaches, nosebleeds and nausea from residents in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Porter Ranch near the storage facility.

As reported by the Sacramento Bee:

Attorney General Xavier Becerra said the tentative deal, which will be open to public comment and requires court approval, addressed violations of health and safety codes, the illegal discharge of air contaminants and failure to report the release of hazardous materials.

"There is no excuse for what happened," Becerra said in a statement. "For over four months, this leak exposed our communities to natural gas emissions that resulted in adverse health impacts and disrupted the lives of tens of thousands of Californians."

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https://www.ecowatch.com/transcanada-pipeline-explodes-west-virginia-2576042392.html

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http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/inside-total-catastrophe-ensued-after-elected-libertarian-mayor-promised-freest

... In 2006, fearing annexation by rapidly encroaching San Antonio, some in Von Ormy proposed incorporating as a town. But in government-averse rural Texas, incorporation can be a hard sell. Unincorporated areas are governed mainly by counties, which have few rules about what you can do on private property and tend to only lightly tax. There’s no going back from what municipal government brings: taxes, ordinances, elections and tedious city council meetings. Still, the fear of being absorbed by San Antonio — with its big-city taxes and regulations — was too much for most Von Ormians.

Enter Art Martinez de Vara. At the time, Martinez de Vara was an ambitious third-year law student at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, a local boy with a penchant for Texas history and right-wing politics.

Martinez de Vara suggested a compromise of sorts. Von Ormy could become a “liberty city” — a stripped-down, low-tax, low-government version of municipal government that’s currently en vogue among the tea party in Texas.

Initially, the city would impose property and sales taxes, but the property tax would ratchet down to zero over time. The business-friendly environment would draw new economic activity to Von Ormy, and eventually the town would cruise along on sales taxes alone.

There would be no charge for building permits, which Martinez de Vara said would be hand-delivered by city staff. The nanny state would be kept at bay, too. Want to shoot off fireworks? Blast away. Want to smoke in a bar? Light up. Teens wandering around at night? No curfew, no problem.

Martinez de Vara and his mother, Sally Martinez, along with other prominent residents, started the Commission to Incorporate Von Ormy. He gave Von Ormy a motto: “The Freest Little City in Texas.”

Folks in Von Ormy liked what they heard and in May 2008 voted to incorporate. Martinez de Vara was elected mayor that November.

In a 2015 presentation he gave at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative think tank, Martinez de Vara said that a group of people with no political experience took it upon themselves to do everything a large city like San Antonio does but at a lower cost. He touted Von Ormy’s ability to provide animal control services, a 20-officer police department — a mix of paid officers and volunteers — and an online city hall.

“We were blessed with this unique opportunity to experiment with democracy,” hesaid.

Today, there is no city animal control program and stray dogs roam the streets. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office patrols the town instead of city police, and City Hall resides in a mobile home with one full-time staffer — though that’s a step up from the dive bar where City Council met until the owner bounced them out. If you go to the city’s website, you’ll be informed that it’s still under construction....

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http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-obama-climate-policies-2333194787.html

President Trump will travel to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today at 2 p.m. to sign a broad executive order that will take aim at key Obama-era climate policies, setting the stage for several extended energy fights in the months and years to come.

Ordering a review and rewrite of the Clean Power Plan is the main target in the executive order's crosshairs, but the order will also highlight several other policies in jeopardy, including the social cost of carbon figure, regulations on coal plants and methane emissions and the moratorium on coal leasing on federal lands.

"The Trump Administration continues to fulfill its campaign promise to trample on environmental protections and prioritize the jobs of fossil fuel executives under the guise of protecting American workers," said Ken Berlin, president and CEO of The Climate Reality Project.

While the move to scrap the Clean Power Plan raises questions on the efficacy of the U.S. involvement in the Paris agreement, a White House official said on a Tuesday night press call to review the order that staying in Paris is "still under discussion."

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20032017/paris-climate-agreement-donald-trump-global-warming-clean-power-plan

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trump fail flynn wsj

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/22/15021220/wall-street-journal-editorial-trump

On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board published a scathing criticism of President Trump, warning that “if he doesn't show more respect for the truth most Americans may conclude he's a fake President.” It also colorfully says that “the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle.”

The week started on a bad note for Trump, with FBI Director James Comey debunking his wiretapping claims in a hearing on Monday. On that topic, the editorial, titled “A President’s Credibility,” accused Trump of “rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims.” In the piece, which unabashedly skewers Trump, the editorial board made a point of defending White House press secretary Sean Spicer, writing that he “doesn’t deserve this treatment.”

Trump has spent much of the week stumping on behalf of the Republican health care plan,which has been criticized by members of his own party and, it’s worth noting, by typically pro-Trump media outlets such as Breitbart as well.

The editorial also goes in on Trump’s attempts to sell unconvinced House Republicans on the bill: ...All of this continues the pattern from the campaign that Mr. Trump is his own worst political enemy. He survived his many false claims as a candidate because his core supporters treated it as mere hyperbole and his opponent was untrustworthy Hillary Clinton. But now he’s President, and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will excuse anything. As he is learning with the health-care bill, Mr. Trump needs partners in his own party to pass his agenda. He also needs friends abroad who are willing to trust him when he asks for support, not least in a crisis.

That Trump seems to have lost the editorial board of the Journal shows just how poor a job he’s doing. Since his election, the paper’s opinion pages had been moving in a more pro-Trump direction. In February, an op-ed editor critical of the president was reportedly dismissed. The same month, Politico’s Joe Pompeo reported that there was ongoing tension at the Journal regarding how the paper should treat Trump.

Wednesday’s op-ed is notable for its explosive language — but also for its break from the direction the Wall Street Journal seemed to be heading in. If the editorial board thinks it can impact the president’s behavior by calling him out, though, it’s likely to be disappointed.

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eg charter:

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cmd 2015 report

WISCONSIN

In 2009, Wisconsin was awarded up to $69.7 million in a CSP grant that ran through 2015. As with other states, Wisconsin was praised for the “flexibility” given to charter schools by state law. Wisconsin was in the first wave of states to approve charter schools, in 1993, through a bill modeled on the “Charter Schools Act” pushed by the American Legislative Exchange Council, which took credit for it being introduced and becoming law.(Governor Tommy Thompson (R-WI) was an early ALEC legislative member, and as governor he became known for numerous “reforms” that later were spawned by ALEC, which Thompson essentially conceded in a public speech years later.) Initially, Wisconsin capped the number of charters but today it has over 240 charters with nearly 50,000 students enrolled. Earlier this year, Wisconsin expanded who can authorize charters. More than 90 charters have failed and closed in Wisconsin, including more than two dozen just in Milwaukee alone. The reasons cited for closures include allegations of financial improprieties and fraud, financial mismanagement, poor academic performance, low enrollment, failure to hire enough qualified teachers, and more. Among those failed charters are nearly a dozen, at least, that were federal CSP sub-grantees, as noted in the list below....

http://www.prwatch.org/files/new_charter_school_black_hole_report_oct_21_2015.pdf

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OMG fail

Columbus Dispatch wrote recently of the academic failures of the Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT) where the graduation rate of 38% is among the worst of any school in the state. Among Ohio’s 613 traditional public school districts , the lowest graduation rate is 60.9%. In addition, ECOT received all Fs and one D on the state’s most recent report card.

Despite its abysmal performance record, ECOT continues to expand. More than 14,500 children are currently enrolled, making ECOT the equivalent of the 10th largest school district in the state. The Dispatch story noted that ECOT founder William Lager has donated more than $1 million to Ohio politicians in the last five years  as his school has grown exponentially.

Failure at What Cost?

Information at KnowYourCharter.com helps clarify the burden that local public schools must bear to cover the costs of students who chose to attend  ECOT. Kids in all 88 Ohio counties are impacted. More than 95% of school districts – 586 of 613 districts – have students and  money being transferred to ECOT. As one of the state’s 9 statewide e-schools and one of the country’s largest for-profit K-12 schools, ECOT’s poor performance is exacerbated by its extraordinary financial impact on children throughout the state.

According to state data located at KnowYourCharter.com, more than 90% of the districts that had students and  funding transferred to ECOT in the 2012-2013 school year[[1]](http://knowyourcharter.com/2015/01/09/ecot-cost-failure/#_ftn1) had more money go to ECOT than the state would have paid the district[[2]](http://knowyourcharter.com/2015/01/09/ecot-cost-failure/#_ftn2). That forces districts throughout the state to subsidize ECOT with local tax revenues to make up those per pupil state funding differences – differences that in two cases topped more than $10,000 per pupil[[3]](http://knowyourcharter.com/2015/01/09/ecot-cost-failure/#_ftn3).

The average difference between what the state would have paid districts for the kids attending ECOT  in the 528 districts was $2,897 per pupil  less than what was paid to ECOT. That means local taxpayers had to subsidize the difference to make up for the larger  payments to ECOT.

For districts that had at least 1 full-time student transfer to ECOT during the 2012-2013 school year, here are the biggest per pupil funding differences between what  ECOT was paid and what the state paid the district in the last school year:

Many of these school districts are among the state’s highest performers, and they are losing significant per pupil funding from the state to a school that graduates students at a 20 percent lower rate than the worst traditional public school district. Consider as well that all this money goes to a school that doesn’t have a building, lunch ladies, buses, a gym, or any one of myriad expenses endured by brick and mortar schools.

Here are some more facts from KnowYourCharter.com:

 failed states aka fragile

http://foreignpolicy.com/fragile-states-2014/

Position Country 2014 score Change from 2013 Change from 2012 Change from 2011 Change from 2010[9] Change from 2009[10] Change from 2008[11] Change from 2007

1 South Sudan 112.9 negative increase 2.3 negative increase 4.5 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

2 Somalia 112.6 positive decrease 1.3 positive decrease 2.3 positive decrease 0.8 positive decrease 1.7 positive decrease 2.1 positive decrease 1.6 negative increase 1.5

3 Central African Republic 110.6 negative increase 5.3 negative increase 6.8 negative increase 5.6 negative increase 4.2 negative increase 5.2 negative increase 6.9 negative increase 9.6

4 Democratic Republic of the Congo 110.2 positive decrease 1.7 positive decrease 1.0 negative increase 2.0 negative increase 0.3 negative increase 1.5 negative increase 3.5 negative increase 4.7

5 Sudan

6 Chad 108.7 positive decrease 0.3 negative increase 1.1 positive decrease 1.6 positive decrease 4.6 positive decrease 3.5 positive decrease 2.2 positive decrease 0.1

7 Afghanistan 106.5 positive decrease 0.2 negative increase 0.5 positive decrease 1.0 positive decrease 2.8 positive decrease 1.7 negative increase 1.1 negative increase 4.2

8 Yemen 105.4 positive decrease 1.6 negative increase 0.6 negative increase 5.1 negative increase 5.4 negative increase 7.3 negative increase 10.0 negative increase 12.2

9 Haiti 104.3 positive decrease 1.5 positive decrease 0.6 positive decrease 3.7 negative increase 2.7 negative increase 2.5 negative increase 5.0 negative increase 3.4

10 Pakistan 103.0 negative increase 0.1 negative increase 1.4 negative increase 0.7 negative increase 0.5 positive decrease 1.1 positive decrease 0.8 negative increase 2.9

11 Zimbabwe 102.8 positive decrease 2.4 positive decrease 3.5 positive decrease 5.1 positive decrease 7.4 positive decrease 11.2 positive decrease 9.7 positive decrease 7.3

12 Guinea 102.7 negative increase 1.4 negative increase 0.8 negative increase 0.2 positive decrease 2.3 positive decrease 1.9 negative increase 0.9 negative increase 1.4

13 Iraq 102.2 positive decrease 1.7 positive decrease 2.1 positive decrease 2.6 positive decrease 5.1 positive decrease 6.4 positive decrease 8.4 positive decrease 9.2

14 Cote d'Ivoire 101.7 positive decrease 1.8 positive decrease 1.9 positive decrease 1.1 negative increase 0.5 positive decrease 0.8 positive decrease 2.9 positive decrease 5.6

15 Syria 101.6 negative increase 4.2 negative increase 7.1 negative increase 15.7 negative increase 13.7 negative increase 11.8 negative increase 11.5 negative increase 13.0

16 Guinea-Bissau 100.6 positive decrease 0.5 negative increase 1.4 negative increase 2.3 negative increase 3.4 negative increase 5.8 negative increase 9.3 negative increase 11.8

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Mauritania 103 84

Nepal 104 94

Pakistan 104 109

Honduras 104 109

Togo 104 112

The Gambia 104 131

Azerbaijan 104 135

Kazakhstan 104 136

Nicaragua 111 91

Madagascar 111 109

Russia 113 131

Nigeria 114 91

Lebanon 114 94

Cameroon 114 115

Kyrgyzstan 114 115

Iran 114 143

Uganda 119 104

Ukraine 119 113

Papua New Guinea 121 54

Bangladesh 121 100

Kenya 121 104

Guinea 121 115

Laos 121 140

Central African Republic 126 127

Paraguay 126 72

Tajikistan 128 138

Congo, Republic of 128 107

Chad 130 127

Congo 130 136

Cambodia 132 120

Myanmar 132 124

Zimbabwe 132 126

Burundi 135 131

Syria 135 144

Haiti 137 102

Guinea-Bissau 137 121

Angola 137 125

Yemen 137 138

Venezuela 137 140

Libya 142 118

Eritrea 142 147

Uzbekistan 142 148

Turkmenistan 145 149

Iraq 146 127

Afghanistan 147 131

Sudan 148 145

Somalia 149 146

North Korea 149 150

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