Your Tax Dollars at Work: Online Schools Spend Millions on Advertising

Seen those TV ads for online charter schools? Well, USA TODAY did some digging and found that those schools "have spent millions in taxpayer dollars on advertising over the past five years." They're "operated online by for-profit companies but with local taxpayer support" and they're "buying TV, radio, newspaper and internet ads to attract students, even as brick-and-mortar public schools in the districts they serve face budget crunches." What would happen if local schools did the same?