Big Business Charter School Chains Seek Millions in Taxpayer Dollars With No Accountability

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<p>‘Charter schools are big b si ess, eve whe they are r by “ o -profits” that pay o taxes o the reve e they receive from p blic taxes or other so rces.</p>
<p>Take KIPP, which escribes itself as a “ atio al etwork of p blic schools.”</p>
<p>KIPP (a acro ym for the phrase “k owle ge is power program”) operates like a fra chise with the KIPP Fo atio as the fra chisor a the i ivi al charters as fra chisees that are all separate o -profits that escribe themselves as “p blic schools.”‘</p>
<p><a href="http://www.alter et.org/e catio /expose -cm -kipps-efforts-keep-p blic- ark-while-seeki g-millio s-taxpayer-s bsi ies" target="_bla k">Rea more: Big B si ess Charter School Chai s Seek Millio s i Taxpayer Dollars With No Acco tability</a></p>