StickWithANose

Yet more evidence surfaces that the charter movement is evolving into little more than a mechanism for private interests to loot from the public treasury. This one is from Philadelphia. [h/t Schools Matter]
City Controller Alan Butkovitz’s investigation of 13 Philadelphia charter schools found repeated examples of complex real estate arrangements in which charters leased or [...]

As a reformed libertarian, I am sympathetic to those who believe that the spirit of competition in the marketplace is the primary engine of innovation, however libertarianism is a belief system that is not well rooted in empirical reality.  From the canals of the early 19th century to the satellites making possible all of this [...]