The Bipartisan War on Public Education: Barrington

Providing gifts to the charter school industry is expected from the secretary of education, regardless of who holds the position. Bryant mentions a report from the Center for Media and Democracy which “found that over the past 20 years the federal government has sent over $3.3 billion to the charter school industry with virtually no accountability.” The report states that “the federal government maintains no comprehensive list of the charter schools that have received and spent these funds or even a full list of the private or quasi-public entities that have been approved by states to ‘authorize’ charters that receive federal funds.”