The lack of basic safeguards has opened up the charter school sector to “educational entrepreneurs,” says Preston C. Green, professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Connecticut. “These actors may also run businesses whose interests conflict with the charter schools that they are operating.”

In 2001, Enron rocked the financial world by declaring bankruptcy in the wake of a now infamous accounting scandal. Within months, shares in the energy and commodities giant – the seventh-largest corporation in the country at the time – plunged to penny stock levels. Thousands of employees lost their jobs. Investors lost billions. The same type of fraud and mismanagement is happening in the charter school sector, says Professor Preston Green.

Alarmed by President Trump’s increasingly hostile stances, several local school departments have sought to reassure parents, students, and teachers that protections remain in place for immigrant and transgender students.

Business Insider (Neag School’s Preston Green is interviewed in this article relating charter schools to the subprime-mortgage crisis)

The Day (Neag School’s Preston Green weighs in on the recent Connecticut school funding decision)

A Connecticut judge calls unequal education unconstitutional, and raises national questions about the American way of schooling.

A ruling by a state judge ordering Connecticut to overhaul public-school funding has sent chills through some suburban and rural districts, where leaders fear they will lose money from Hartford if the order is carried out.

Mark Paige, a professor at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and Preston Green, a professor at the University of Connecticut Neag School of Education, discuss school funding plans across the country, many of which are either in court or have already been ruled unconstitutional as the school year begins.

A Connecticut judge’s sweeping ruling Wednesday declaring vast portions of the state’s educational system as unconstitutional sent shock waves across the state.

TruthOut (Neag School’s Preston Green offers insights on recent legal rulings impacting charter schools)