In some states, charter schools ARE being funded by taxpayer dollars. The entire game for the Republicans is to actively defund public schools with charter schools. A student leaves the public school and their funding goes with them. THE ABSOLUTE BATSHITTERY OF IT ALL IS- if that student isn’t happy with the charter school and decides to enroll again in public schools, the public school has to take them at any time WITH NO COMPENSATION FOR THE RETURNING STUDENT. They just have to make do with less teachers, resources, etc. Every year, public schools wait to see if they get positions cut based on the incoming student population. But they are completely skewing that metric with the potential failure of any charter school (money laundering scheme).
There’s also often next to no oversight on how charters spend their money. So, there’s also that.
Yeah. Yeah, this all checks out.
