School creates fake students in an effort to get more state funding

Several internal school documents and e-mails reveal so-called "dummy" classes set up by administrators at Denver's Contemporary Learning Academy. The "dummy classes" and the fake students who are enrolled in them appear to be an effort to falsify enrollment numbers on student count day to get more money from the state.

"The school is pretending that classes exist, which do not. It is pretending that there are students enrolled attending those fake classes -- students who are not," said a source speaking on the condition of anonymity.

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I am sure this is not an isolated incident. This is another reason the the real solution to education woes, is to have each pupil pay for their own education. A school could then claim to have a couple hundred more students than they really have, but I don's see the benefit as it would not lead to more revenue. Part of the problem with the current educational structure is that for a school the customer is the government and not the student or the students parent.