(From the New York Sun, May 31, 2007)
By ELIZABETH GREEN
Staff Reporter of the Sun
May 31, 2007
A money manager recently sent an e-mail to some partners, congratulating them on an investment of $1 million that yielded an estimated $400 million. The reasoning was that $1 million spent on trying to lift a cap on the number of charter schools in New York State yielded a change in the law that will bring $400 million a year in funding to new charter schools.