13 Philly Charter Schools Under Investigation
The City of Brotherly Love might as well be re-named the "City of School Management Profiteers". The well-documented Edison debacle - one of the first experiments in privatization of public schools - is giving way to a second round of questionable education practices and profiteers, this time in the form of unregulated charter schools. Of course, one can only wonder how a public school managed to hold a bar/nightclub without scrutiny for such a length of time, but, then again, the public oversight of these private operators is about as effective as the SEC regulators looking over the securities industry.
Butkovitz is one of the few that recognizes the problem, and the man is taking action. 13 of the districts 67 charter schools -
