DON'T MISS: "Asleep at the Wheel" : - Network For Public Education

MUST READ! "This report,  details the Network for Public Education’s two month examination of the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program (CSP).  The report found that nearly $1 billion had been wasted in the past 25 years on charter schools that never opened or closed soon after opening. Our investigation found a troubling pattern of insufficient applicant review, contradictions between information provided by applicants and available public data, the gifting of funds to schools with inadequate financial and governance plans, a push-out of large grants to the states with little supervision by the department, and the waste of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.The article is a condensation of one that Jeff wrote in “The Progressive.”