Public dollars, private rules: The charter school calculus
Friday, August 15, 2014 - 07:31
in Mathematics & Economics
The phenomenal growth of charter schools nationwide has been aided by a canny legal strategy in which the schools claim to be public for the purpose of taking in tax dollars but private for the purpose of evading government oversight, according to Preston Green, John and Carla Klein Professor of Urban Education at UConn's Neag School of Education.