Charter School Crooks

Here's a glimpse into the future when the Newark school system is completely charterized - charter school crooks running their own real estate fiefdoms, stealing millions from the schools, taking millions more for "rent," and securing millions more in loans by using the charter school assets as collateral.

And of course both the state commissioner, Chris Cerf, and the Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson have no comment on the matter.

Charter proponents will push back on these kinds of stories and say, "Doesn't fraud happen in district schools?"

Sure it does.

But as Diane Ravitch has noted, because of the oversight in the regular public school system, crooked administrators in district schools can steal at best thousands.

These charter crooks, with no oversight and a pro-charter state education department willing to give them the benefit of doubt on almost every allegation can steal millions.

In regular public schools, the fraud happens in the central offices where they hand out the consultant and testing contracts.