Notice that there are no Kansas schools on this list. Let’s keep it that way.

“Over the last decade, the charter school movement has morphed from a small, community-based effort to foster alternative education into a national push to privatize public schools, pushed by free-market foundations and big education-management companies. This transformation opened the door to profit-seekers looking for a way to cash in on public funds.

“Riding the wave of pro-privatization, rightwing propaganda that public schools have ‘failed’ and need to be turned over to private business operators, charter school lobbyists, working with ALEC, have been able to get legislation passed to allow them to open schools all over the country that take public funds but skip the kind of oversight that regular public schools must submit to.

“The results are being collected as evidence by the FBI.”

Read more here: http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/08/187821/fbi-tracks-charter-schools#.dpuf