Schools Matter: NYTimes Reports on Growing Charter School Corruption

Schools Matter: NYTimes Reports on Growing Charter School Corruption

NYTimes Reports on Growing Charter School Corruption

by Jim Horn

A clip from NYTimes:

. . .Charters, for example, are not specifically prohibited by state law from hiring their own board members or employees as consultants. While the state comptroller’s office — the government’s fiscal watchdog — can audit public schools, it is barred by a court ruling from examining charter schools.


Before that court ruling was issued last year, the comptroller’s office completed audits of 18 charters around the state. Fourteen had significant financial irregularities, including one school that spent $67,951 on staff trips to the Caribbean, according to officials. “We don’t have enough