The worm is turning

On Sunday, the Beacon Journal’s astute education writer , Doug Livingston, took up the travesty once again under the headline “Charter schools misspend millions in Ohio”.
Braced with figures from State Auditor Dave Yost’s team, Livingston topped his report with a telling opening paragraph:

“No sector – not local governments, school districts, court systems, public universities or hospitals – misspends tax dollars like charter schools in Ohio'”

Based on the writer’s review of 4,263 audits by the state auditor, the money was misspent “four times more often than any other type of taxpayer agency.” Say, $27.3 million. There are some other for-profit charter organizations in Ohio, but none with the commanding scope of White Hat’s influence

Although Yost is committed to cleaning up the gore, he’s fighting a losing battle. The size and reach of the charter system has grown so large that he doesn’t have a staff that’s big enough to cover all of it.