Rather than funding a school directly the state allocates the money per child.
The school said that it ranked for three years "in the top 3 percent" for value-added performance until a dip in the most recent ranking.
States would provide up to $12,000 per student to attend a different school.
Songofunmi was equally unimpressed with Trump's efforts last week in Detroit and this week in Cleveland to reach out to non-white voters. He and the company, based in the same Virginia city as ACCEL, were the targets of a class action lawsuit in 2012.
Stephen Dyer, education fellow with the Innovation Ohio think tank, said Mr. Trump "selected a chronically failing, for-profit one run by a Republican who is more adept at making money than educating kids".
Even before Trump stepped to the lectern, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations - the nation's largest union group - emailed prepared rebukes by several leaders of teachers unions, which oppose nonunionized charter schools. A core part of that plan is to re-allocate $20 billion in federal funds as a block grant to the states for the sake of promoting school choice.
"As president, I will establish the national goal of providing school choice to every American child living in poverty", Trump said at the school, which has around 350 students ranging from kindergarteners to eighth graders, according to The New York Times.
Critics of school choice believe, however, that funneling money into school choice programs negatively affects traditional public schools by shuffling tax dollars away from them.
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"I will also support merit pay for teachers", he said.
Vouchers and charter schools are generally popular among Republicans and are central planks in the education platform that Republican National Convention delegates adopted in July.
In July, K12 agreed to a $168.5 million settlement after California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit alleging that its operation of 14 public virtual schools in the state violated false claims, false advertising and unfair competition laws.
And data from states across the country shows that students who use vouchers don't necessarily do better academically than students attending public schools. Speaking to press at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy, Trump accused the Democratic party of trapping millions of black and Hispanic children in failing public schools that deny them the opportunity to "join the ladder of American success".
Trump's lack of a real education plan isn't the only thing that concerns educators in this highly unusual election. But he has offered few details about how he would fix K-12 education, other than saying he wants to get rid of Common Core (which the president lacks the authority to do - academic standards are determined by states); scale back or possibly eliminate the U.S. Education Department; and expand school choice.
And Ohio isn't the best example of a state that's benefited from a school choice model - given the fact that its school choice director resigned after he purposely left failing grades off of evaluations of online schools.
Other Republicans too had raised the idea of using federal dollars to allow poor children to go to schools of their choice.
A similar voucher program is already in place in Florida, where almost 100,000 low-income students receive scholarships to attend private schools. This was during the overhaul of the nation's main federal education law a year ago.
