Which Charter Schools Got Federal PPP $$ in Your State or Zipcode?
Do you wonder which businesses, schools, and nonprofits in your
neighborhood or state got a piece of the hundreds of billions of dollars
handed out by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in the Paycheck Protection
Program? He tried to keep the names of the recipients secret but eventually
released the list.
Now you can easily review the list.
ProPublica put all the awards into a search engine which anyone can
use. Here it is.
You can satisfy your curiosity about who got the money. I looked at my zip
code and was shocked to see some very wealthy institutions listed as well as
some local businesses who probably thought they won the grand prize in the
lottery. Those on the know cashed in. Many worthy small businesses and
colleges never applied. They were not in the know.
Would you like to do some volunteer work for the Network for Public
Education? We would love to have your help identifying the charter schools
in your state that received PPP money.
Public schools were not eligible to participate in the PPP, but charter
lobbyists made sure that charter schools were. Thus, they got money
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