Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results | Truthout

Charter Schools Outsource Education to Management Firms, With Mixed Results | Truthout

Sunday 10 April 2011
by: Sharona Coutts, ProPublica

(Photo: Tulane Publications; Edited: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t)

Since 2008, an Ohio-based company, White Hat Management, has collected around $230 million to run charter schools in that state. The company has grown into a national chain and reports that it has about 20,000 students across the country. But now 10 of its own schools and the state of Ohio are suing, complaining that many White Hat students are failing, and that the company has refused to account for how it has spent the money.