Jill gives us the rundown over at Progress Ohio. We’ve covered a great deal about the charter school scam here at Plunderbund and the continued profiteering amidst failure after failure. Jill makes a very good point: charters are not bad in and of themselves. What they’ve been turned into is. Leave it to a bunch of wingnuts and un-checked Republican power brokers to turn something good bad.
Follow the money and understand the arrangement behind the headlines and the political rhetoric. (Graph made at Ohio Money Tree)
Pretty good report on Brennan and White Hat put out by AFT last year (84 page pdf)
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