Widespread cheating on tests at one IDEA charter-school campus? Say it ain’t so. One of the very first stories that The Advance News Journal published about IDEA Public Schools (huge RGVbased charter operator) is dated Aug. 12, 2015. The frontpage headline read: Charter School CEO makes $325k per year plus a country club membership?” The annual salary would eventually rise to close to a million before all was said and done. That was the first of many stories The Advance published about IDEA while most, if not all, of the other news coverage it was receiving at the time – local, state, and ...