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Separating Data from Ideology: Fact-checking the Texas Charter Schools Controversy

Perhaps it was too be expected that Dana, at Delaware Watch , would find a pro-government, anti-private enterprise lesson in the current Texas Charter Schools controversy. Here's the gist of the story as Dana reported it: Nearly One-Half of All Charter Schools in Texas Have Bilked Taxpayers for $26 Millions .... More news of success from the barely regulated, semi-private and "superior" education system.... "Nearly half" in Texas is no small number. It's "93 of the 211 charter operators," 20% of which, apparently, took the money and ran.... Why did these charter schools rip off the taxpayers?... Perhaps a more fruitful question is why have so many of the Lone Star state's charter schools found themselves frequently distressed. Unsurprisingly, one explanation happens to be one of the reasons that many politically active misers find attractive about charter schools. Cheap labor = inexperienced labor.... It appears that charter schools in Texas ha...