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

Charter schools are big business, even when they are run by "non-profits" that pay no taxes on the revenue they receive from public taxes or other sources.

Take KIPP, which describes itself as a "national network of public schools." KIPP (an acronym for the phrase "knowledge is power program") operates like a franchise with the KIPP Foundation as the franchisor and the individual charters as franchisees that are all separate non-profits that describe themselves as "public schools." 

But how public are KIPP public schools?...
http://www.alternet.org/education/exposed-cmd-kipps-efforts-keep-public-dark-while-seeking-millions-taxpayer-subsidies