School administrators' midyear adjustment griping mostly
unwarranted  The Oklahoman Editorial Modified: January 20, 2013
at 1:18 am •  Published: January 20, 2013  More importantly,
for-profit entities must please customers to survive — in this
case, students and parents. Virtual charter schools can be
closed if they fail to generate academic results. The same can't
be said for traditional schools. Williams works for a Tulsa
school system where more than half the district's schools got a
D or an F on their state report card. None faces closure as a
result.  Administrators are correct when they note total student
enrollment has increased while total state funding remained the
same, reducing the amount spent per-student. But midyear
adjustments and the long-established state funding formula are
unrelated to that discussion.  The administrators' complaints
suggest they think some public school students deserve equitable
funding but others don't. That's a recipe for unjust
discrimination against some public schoo