I guess we will have to get used to this sort of thing.
Some charter schools in Florida padded the enrollment–er, made a miscalculation–of the number of students in their program.
An audit of Coronado High School found there was no documentation to show 465 students participated in an on-the-job course. The school could provide documentation of 13 students in the course. The audit at North Nicholas High revealed 102 of 372 students were incorrectly reported.
Nice to see they were audited.
The governor had three charter school executives on his transition team.
He named one of them to the State Board of Education.
Does anyone care?
Remember when we used to worry about conflicts of interest?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Well, in an Age of Impunity such as ours, the insights of Ronald Reagan come to mind: “Facts are stupid things.”
Why should charter operators, their funders or their political enablers care a whit about facts or the truth, when such golden opportunities for profit and power exist?
Not only did we care…there used to be laws preventing a conflict of interest. I guess those have been abandoned since we need to reform schools, so quickly and expeditiously. After all, it’s for the children.
Any surprise Rick- Medicare- Fraudster -Scott should care about conflict of interest? Note how he was held accountable in 1998:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20100819/NEWS/8195066
Columbia/HCA hospitals had been billing U.S. taxpayers for a variety of expenses that Medicare did not cover, including lavish parties, gifts and other perks to physicians,
Scott’s hospitals kept a double set of books. The one with inflated costs was sent to Medicare. The list of legitimate expenses, often marked “Confidential: Do Not Show to Medicare Auditors,” was kept for internal recordkeeping, Schilling testified in court.
Scott was ousted from the company in the ensuing uproar, leaving with an estimated $300 million in stock and compensation.