Reply #48: And as several people pointed out, you're wrong.

[Chan790]

Most have zero accountability and merely siphon money off the system. Even on the rare occasion one fails, it costs the taxpayers even more money (and usually lawsuits) to yank the charter. There is no public oversight to speak of.

What would I know about the subject...oh wait, I used to work in this field. I used to have to put on the shirt and tie and go to court and testify about how badly the charter schools were failing in Hartford CT, talk about how the law denied us any meaningful manner in which to assess them and how they were churning out high GPA morons that couldn't tie their own shoes or write a passable college admissions essay. (This is why GPAs, assessment tests and graduation rates make poor metrics BTW. They educate minimally to the assessment and we can't do anything about it. I literally know of one school that taught #1 is A, #2 is B, 3# is B,...and that wasn't grounds to revoke charter.) We were a literacy organization...most of these kids were low-literate and the money to educate them was wasted. Any idea how expensive it is to have to educate someone twice?

You're out of your element. Do you argue super-string theory with theoretical physicists too?