| | U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has championed charters and for-profit education, contending that school choice can lower absenteeism and dropout rates. But at schools like Capital High in Columbus, Ohio, a ProPublica-USA Today collaboration found, the drop-outs rarely drop in-and if they do, they don't stay long. Such schools aggressively recruit as many students as possible, and -with no one preventing them - often count those students even after they stop showing up, a practice that can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-paid revenue for empty desks.
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