Charter schools helping some a lot. . . only they're not students

Washington Post - Two of the District’s charter school leaders earned about as much as or more than D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson in 2013, though she runs a city school system that, with 45,000 students, is much larger than either of their organizations.

A Washington Post analysis of federal tax forms shows that the District’s five dozen charter school leaders earned total compensation ranging from just less than $90,000 to more than $350,000 in 2013. The Post analysis shows that leaders of some charter schools are paid no more than principals at traditional public schools, while others are earning much higher salaries to lead one school, or a handful of schools, that serve just hundreds of students.

D.C. taxpayers send more than $600 million to fund the city’s charter schools each year, but there is far less information available about how that money is spent than the tax dollars that flow to the traditional public school system.