Gulen charter schools

Enormous front page article in the New York Times today on the Gulen charter school network. There's some big questions here around the legitimacy of the biding process, the religious angle, the importing of teachers. In all cases it boils down to one thing: not enough public oversight. Charter schools, particularly in states where they are chartered by the state, far too often answer to no one on bidding, treatment of children, staffing...and on and on.