Florida charter schools: big money, little oversight
Florida’s charter school movement has grown into $400-million-a-year powerhouse backed by real-estate developers and promoted by politicians, but with little oversight.
That is the opening paragraph of this Miami Herlad article, whose title I borrowed for this post.
This has been a deliberate expansion over the past 15 years. As the article notes,
What started as an educational movement has turned into one of the region’s fastest-growing industries, backed by real-estate developers and promoted by politicians.But while charter schools have grown into a $400-million-a-year business in South Florida, receiving about $6,000 in taxpayer dollars for every student enrolled, they continue to operate with