How Charter Schools Are Undermining the Future of Public Education

[Coyotl]

Rethinking Schools / By Stan Karp
How Charter Schools Are Undermining the Future of Public Education
In too many places, charters function more like deregulated “enterprise zones” than models of reform, providing subsidized spaces for a few at the expense of the many.
November 14, 2013 | http://www.alternet.org/education/how-charter-schools-are-undermining-future-public-education

Somewhere along the way, nearly every teacher dreams of starting a school. I know I did.

More than once during the 30 years I taught English and journalism to high school students in Paterson, New Jersey, I imagined that creating my own school would open the door to everything I wanted as a teacher:

Colleagues with a shared vision of teaching and learning.
Freedom from central office bureaucracy.
A welcoming school culture
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[CK_John]

1. Charter Schools are designed to replace the concept of public school. That's their function.

[Coyotl]

2. Some are designed to circumvent segregation or end-run other rules, church-state separation, science

Home schooling does the same.