Whitney Tilson: “The largest [charter authorizer] is SUNY in the state. It's…”

“Is that by a government entity who's doing that? It's the charter authorizer. So there are three charter authorizers. The largest [charter authorizer] is SUNY in the state. It's more than half of them. And so it's very difficult to get a charter, to get public money, to have the privilege of educating New York City, New York State school children, to get millions of dollars of, you know, KIPP's budget is for its 18 schools approaching $200 million.” (06:03–06:09)

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