Edu-Grift

Key Readings

The Business of Charter Schooling

• The Conversation: Charter schools exploit lucrative loophole that would be easy to close
• Are charter schools the second coming of Enron?
• Are we approaching a charter school bubble?
• Charter School Expansion (Economic Policy Institute)
• Fiscal Disparities in NYC Charter Schools (NEPC)
• Financing Virtual Schools

Blog Posts

• The Charter School Company Store
• We Bought it Twice and No-longer Own It

Think Tank Reviews

• Fiscal Impact of Charter Schools (California)
• Charter School Funding & Children with Disabilities

Media Coverage

• CBS Mornings on Optima Charter Schools
  • More detailed write-up: https://projects.cbsnews.com/2025/fl-charter-schools/
• ABC10 Sacramento: Highlands Community Charter School
• WXYZ (Detroit) Ethical questions raised around Cornerstone charter schools’ real estate deals
• WXYZ (Detroit) Cornerstone founder Clark Durant accused of self-dealing by charter schools’ biggest private funder
• NorthJersey.com Millions of your tax dollars have disappeared into NJ’s flawed charter school experiment
• WHYY (Philadelphia) After Delaware scandal, a conversation with charter school experts