It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. Take Our Quiz by Zisiga Mukulu, Jennifer Smith Richards, Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Berry Hawes, with illustrations by Millie von Platen for ProPublica Oct. 2, 2026

It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. Take Our Quiz by Zisiga Mukulu, Jennifer Smith Richards, Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Berry Hawes, with illustrations by Millie von Platen for ProPublica Oct. 2, 2026 https://projects.propublica.org/private-school-requirements-quiz/?c=1&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway. https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-private-schools-arkansas-west-virginia-north-carolina?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary Our reporting has shown how easily people — some with questionable backgrounds — have founded their own private schools in barns, strip malls and other places. That led us to an experiment: If the hurdles to open a school are so low, could we do it? by Jennifer Smith Richards, Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Berry Hawes, ProPublica; Milo Strain, Arkansas Times; Henry Culvyhouse, Mountain State Spotlight; and Carli Brosseau, The Assembly October 2, 2026, 6:00 am Private Schools, Public Money Inside America’s Unregulated Private School Boom As private schools fueled by taxpayer-funded vouchers proliferate, the impacts are far reaching. States have little interest in monitoring them, and some parents are finding they won’t serve children with intensive needs. https://www.propublica.org/series/private-schools-public-money?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=secondary