Charter school transparency and accountability rules are not the noisiest issues in government these days, but they are serving as fine example of how folks can drag a fight out.
, with the inherent tension between the interests of the owners and the interests of the students. In this arrangement, I set up East Egg Charter School as a non-profit; I then hire the for-profit East Egg Charter Management Organization to run the school, and every dollar the management company spends on students is one less dollar they pocket.
in tax dollars have been spent. Charter schools are subject to public disclosure laws, but once they hand the money off to a private CMO, those dollars disappear from sight, because the CMO is not subject to any transparency rules. So Michigan taxpayers who want to know how those public education dollars were spent currently get no answer beyond, “We handed them to a CMO, and that’s all we know.”
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