WSJ: “CHARTER BACKERS FLEX POLITICAL MUSCLES”
Here’s the intro of a recent WSJ article about charter school funders in NYC:
With the help of hedge-fund managers and other Wall Street financiers, charter-school advocates gave more than $600,000 to Albany political candidates and party committees since January, according to the latest campaign filings. That’s more than twice as much as in prior reporting periods, according to allies of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately run.
and:
Frustration over Albany’s halting effort to compete for hundreds of millions of education dollars in the