For sure, there were those on “the outside” who advocated against expanding charter schools without taking into account steps toward stricter regulation. As The Nation’s Zoe Carpenter pointed out, the bill’s emergence in the House [of Representatives to expand federal funds for more charter schools] coincided with publication of a report by the Center for Popular Democracy and Integrity in Education that documented “shocking misuses of the federal funds being funneled into the poorly regulated charter industry.”
Nevertheless the charter sector won the Hill that day and has continued to ascend in state capitals around the country since. Meanwhile, real evidence of “the good charters” remains mostly anecdotal, as financial corruption and poor education results from “bad ones” continue to mount with every passing month.
http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/will-anyone-stop-charter-school-corruption/
The Secular Jurist 
This sickens me. There is an obvious agenda.
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Unfortunately, it isn’t quite yet obvious enough for some otherwise progressive folks who have bought into the charter school myth.
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