{"id":21740,"date":"2015-09-23T12:39:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21740"},"modified":"2015-09-23T12:41:32","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T16:41:32","slug":"private-equity-asset-stripping-strategy-meets-charter-schools-to-produce-even-better-looting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/09\/23\/private-equity-asset-stripping-strategy-meets-charter-schools-to-produce-even-better-looting\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Equity Asset-Stripping Strategy Meets Charter Schools to Produce Even Better Looting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naked Capitalism<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2015\/09\/private-equity-asset-stripping-strategy-meets-charter-schools-to-produce-even-better-looting.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NakedCapitalism+%28naked+capitalism%29\" target=\"_blank\">Private Equity Asset-Stripping Strategy Meets Charter Schools to Produce Even Better Looting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how you could make a private (charter) school that would provide a better education and cost less money than a public school and yet turn a profit?  As with all the other efforts to privatize public services, haven&#8217;t you suspected that there must be some trick to this?  Well this article exposes one of the key tricks.  <\/p>\n<p>If you read about how banks could make fraudulent mortgages that had a built-in high rate of defaults, and still make some people rich, then this will be no surprise.  If you knew how Mitt Romney made his fortune by buying failing businesses and &#8220;turning them around&#8221;, then you won&#8217;t be surprised by this article.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose what might surprise you is that you didn&#8217;t see this scam coming.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked Capitalism has the article Private Equity Asset-Stripping Strategy Meets Charter Schools to Produce Even Better Looting. Have you ever wondered how you could make a private (charter) school that would provide a better education and cost less money than a public school and yet turn a profit? As with all the other efforts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21742,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21740\/revisions\/21742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}