I wrote last year on this blog about how, by building in a bias toward parents who have the means and desire to make their children's education a high priority, charter schools gut the public schools of their best students and make themselves look more effective than they actually are, as public schools are forced to handle those whom private educators refuse to admit, due to issues of behavior, disability or neglect.
More compelling evidence of this dynamic has just come out in a damning investigation by Reuters into charter schools' throwing up barriers in order to only get the students they want. As I mentioned last year, if we continue down this path of aggressive "school choice," we will only increase educational disparity in this country—the single biggest factor behind social and economic inequality. The charter school movement is not the path to quality schooling for all.
Read the Reuters report here.
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