Florida is one of just three states in which the majority of charter school students are in schools run by for-profit corporations. The executive director of the Network for Public Education writes that the profit motive in education is failing children.
From insider deals to real estate flips, the problems with charter schools run by for-profit corporations can’t be ignored. And growth in this sector is accelerating as operators use lax regulations and complicated corporate schemes to harvest public dollars from publicly-funded charter schools. Those are the findings of a new