Florida Charters “rife with insider deals and potential conflicts of interest”
So finds last weekend’s report in the Miami Herald. Reporters Scott Hiassen and Kathleen McGrory write:
Charter schools have become a parallel school system unto themselves, a system controlled largely by for-profit management companies and private landlords — one and the same, in many cases — and rife with insider deals and potential conflicts of interest.
The School Choice Landscape pointed out that the Miami Herald report found that Florida charters have “little public oversight.” I’ll say. More from the Herald.
In 2008, a legislative report said the state should adopt stronger monitoring methods to detect
