Broad Foundation revealed it allied with president of teachers' union from the start.

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11. no mystery about why they passed a bond issue and no mystery about why

they won the broad prize.

the prize: because they're doing broad's work.

the bond: because upscale voters know the improvements will go to *their* kids attending magnet and other class-segregated schools, and the finance people know that they'll eventually own the schools the taxpayers buy for them.

politicians support it because they're bought off or want to be and everyone knows which way the wind is blowing.

Florida Charter Schools: big money, little oversight

by Scott Hiaason and Kathleen McGrory

“School districts are limited in their authority over charter schools,” said Schuster, the Miami-Dade spokesman. “They have minimal ability to impose effective consequences.”

Preparing for her daughter’s graduation in the spring, Tuli Chediak received a blunt message from her daughter’s charter high school: Pay us $600 or your daughter won’t graduate.

http://seattleducation2010.wordpress.com/2012/05/15/florida-charter-schools-and-the-lack-of-oversight/