A Cleveland Plain Dealer article explains why the boards felt the need to challenge White Hat in court: In the case of White Hat contracts, the board then hands over about 96 percent of the school's revenue to the company to handle the day - to - day business of running the schools. (cashinginonkids.org)
At one point during the hearings, she suggested that appearing before the Legislature was a diversion from the business of running the schools. (nytimes.com)
More than twenty years ago, Paul Hill wrote Reinventing Public Education, a landmark book that argued that school districts should get out of the business of running schools directly and contract with for - profit and non-profit providers instead. (educationnext.org)