Charter School hustlers living high on the hog
![Michelle Rhee is a rock star with neoliberals and conservatives alike. She can make the test scores in tough school systems look really good. How does she do it? Don’t ask. Even if you did, she’s not dumb enough to acknowledge something like a massive cheating scandal.](https://files.pubsecalliance.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Rhee_eraser.jpg)
Michelle Rhee is a rock star with neoliberals and conservatives alike. She can make the test scores in tough school systems look really good. How does she do it? Don’t ask. Even if you did, she’s not dumb enough to acknowledge something like a massive cheating scandal.
The charter school hustle is identical to all the other hyper-capitalist, anti-government pitches private interest makes when they want to take the money. “This is about giving parents a choice! It’s about letting kids attend the best schools they want without government interference!” It’s all nonsense of course but people ate that crap up with a spoon. But it turns out that the folks that suck public money out of public schools for use in private schools are spending on anything and everything except teaching the kids.