Friday, October 17, 2014

Public education, private profits: Inside a charter school power broker’s million-dollar scam

Public education, private profits: Inside a charter school power broker’s million-dollar scam

"In late February, the North Carolina chapter of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation — a group co-founded by the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers — embarked on what it billed as a statewide tour of charter schools, a cornerstone of the group’s education agenda. The first — and it turns out, only — stop was Douglass Academy, a new charter school in downtown Wilmington."