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Chalkbeat
Senior reporter covering education for Chalkbeat, a website a news site covering educational change in New York schools
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Geoff Decker
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FROM Geoff Decker
To the Point
Charter Schools Face Growing Pains In the past 20 years, charters have established themselves as familiar alternatives to the perceived failures of traditional public schools. With teachers and politicians still debating their educational quality, another question has been submerged: who's keeping track of the money? Some non-profit charters are managed by for-profit companies, and local school boards often lose track of what's happening to public funds. Do charters make public education a backdoor to private profit using taxpayer money?
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