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Charter schools exploit lucrative loophole that would be easy to close

  • Written by Derek W. Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
Some charter school operators make profits by leasing space to themselves at unusually high rates. By Ilya Andriyanov from www.shutterstock.com

While critics charge that charter schools are siphoning money away from public schools, a more fundamental issue frequently flies under the radar: the questionable business practices that allow people who...

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