The head of the state's Office of Open Records is pointing a finger at public charter schools for being the "cancer" of the state's Right-to-Know law.
The testimony comes as lawmakers are in the midst of an effort to tweak the state's five-year-old law, which lets citizens request government records starting with the presumption that all such documents are public, putting the burden of proof on agencies, not citizens.
Charter school groups are giving bad grades to legislative proposals that would reduce what they receive in funding from their local school districts.
One of the more tense exchanges in a recent state House committee hearing on proposals that would mean less funding for charter and cyber charter schools came during a back and forth on the quality of the education provided at the publicly-funded, privately-run schools.
As state lawmakers consider proposed changes to funding cyber charter schools, larger problems with how public education is funded are drawing attention.
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