always ask who profits? excerpt: Many of these companies are becoming political players in their states, working to shape the still-emerging set of rules charters must play by. A few, including Mitchells company, have aligned themselves with influential conservative groups, such as Americans for Prosperity and the Koch-supported American Legislative Exchange Council, or #ALEC. This new reality — in which businesses can run chains of public schools — has spurred questions about the role of profit in public #education and whether more safeguards are needed to prevent #corruption. The U.S. Department of Education has declared the relationships between charter schools and their management companies, both for-profit and nonprofit, a current and emerging risk for misuse of federal dollars. It is conducting a wide-ranging look at such relationships. In the last year alone, the FBI sent out subpoenas as part of an investigation into a Connecticut-based charter-management company and raided schools that are part of a New Mexico chain and a large network of charter schools spanning Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.
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