How Public Education Dollars Are Flowing Into For-Profit Companies

Versions of this story were co-published with The Daily Beast, Raleigh News & Observer and Charlotte Observer. In late February, the North Carolina chapter of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation -- a group co-founded by the libertarian billionaire Koch brothers -- embarked on what it billed as a statewide tour of charter schools, a cornerstone of the group's education agenda. The first -- and it turns out, only -- stop was Douglass Academy, a new charter school in downtown Wilmington. Dougla...