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Ever imagine yourself as a private school operator? It’s not such a wild idea. Hundreds of new private schools have popped up all over the country in recent years, responding to a surge of public money for students to pay tuition. A team of ProPublica journalists has spent this year documenting how the American education landscape is shifting with an increased push for school privatization . Our reporting has identified big differences in how states regulate who can run a school, what they must teach and where they can hold class.