The Network for Public Education is gathering data on charter schools that applied for and received federal funding as small businesses. Most prefer not to admit what they have done, but diligent citizens can request copies of the minutes of their board meetings.
NPE’s Marla Kilfoyle has been diligently collecting the names and the amounts that charter schools have received from the SBA PPP loans. It has not been easy because charters do not want to admit they are taking these funds.
Will you lend Marla a hand? Check the board minutes of your local charter schools during April and May and see if the charter Board approved applying for and accepting PPP funds. If you find any, send the name of the school, amount and a link to the board minutes.
Just click on her email address to generate an email:
marlakilfoyle@networkforpubliceducation.org.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Trying to do some homework on this, very difficult to see through the opaqueness in Ohio, probably need the skills of Jan and Laura to do so, but this was interesting: according to the Dept. of Treasury website, nationwide 25,198 loans totaling $8,062,652,288, or 2.36%, went to “Educational Services.” Surely, they finagled money out of other categories.