This segment originally aired on the August 31, 2014 episode of Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV.

The House of Representatives recently passed a measure that would hand $300 million dollars worth of taxpayer money over to charter schools. Not only are these schools typically run by corporations who are looking to make a profit, but they are ripe with fraud.

Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Ruth Conniff, editor of The Progressive Magazine, discuss what’s happening.

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