Teach for America’s new partnership with largest for-profit charter network - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Teach for America’s new partnership with largest for-profit charter network - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Teach for America’s new partnership with largest for-profit charter network

by Valerie Strauss

Teach for America loves to expand its reach, and so it has again, this time partnering with the controversial Imagine schools, the nation’s largest for-profit charter school network.

That’s an interesting pairing.

Imagine is based in Arlington, Virginia, with some 75 schools in more than a dozen states, including Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The for-profit charter operator has been investigated in some states for the way it exercises control over the schools it manages, essentially ignoring the boards of trustees that are supposed to really run the schools.

It has also come under scrutiny for its complicated real estate deals that generate millions of public dollars for Imagine. The St. Louis Post-