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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The "Big Enchilada"

Schooling in the Ownership Society: The "Big Enchilada":

The "Big Enchilada"

"Trying to make a killing in the charter school business"?! Yeah, that's right, the charter school business is so profitable that I'm telling all my friends in the hedge fund business that they're in the wrong business. My message: "If you really want to make a lot of money, start a charter school!" LOL! -- Whitney Tilson
LOL! indeed. In 2007, hedgefunder and charter school maven, Whitney Tilson chided mefor implying that there was a profit to be made in the charter school market and that he and his group DFER were pursuing exactly that course, under the banner of school reform. It was Tilson himself, a couple of years later however, who let the cat out of the