As a follow-up to last week’s front-page story about IDEA Public Schools’ story published in the Houston Chronicle Jan. 30, which pointed out that the huge charter school operator had spent approximately $400,000 over the past 12 months on tickets to San Antonio Spurs games, bought first-class plane tickets for its top administrators, and was planning to lease a private jet for six years before the negative news was made public, and a state teachers union objected. The Washington Post published its own story about IDEA the same week (Jan. 27). In the Chronicle story, IDEA’s CEO Tom Torkelson publicly apologized ...