Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron?

Story from UConn Today The Whole Truth Are Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron? In a research paper that’s spurring a national conversation, Preston Green III and co-authors outline the many parallels they see between today’s charter school systems and the early days of the subprime mortgage crisis, when aggressive business practices and unchecked growth created a national housing bubble that threw the country into deep recession. Green, professor of educational leadership and law in the Neag School of Education, is concerned that, as with the subprime crisis, insufficient regulation could result in the formation of charter school bubbles: […]