by David Safier
Remember that wonderful 5 part investigation of tuition tax credits and STOs in the East Valley Trib? And remember how the Trib reporters as well as others at the Republic kept adding to the story? And remember how all this journalistic attention led to not one, but two legislative committees looking into tax credits and STOs?
Pretty neat how that works, isn't it? Power of the press and all that good stuff.
Well, a similar thing is beginning to happen in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where the Journal Gazette published a series of articles about their local, non profit Imagine Schools being run by the for profit Imagine Schools corporation instead of by their local boards, in direct violation of IRS regulations.