School choice is becoming a kind of all-purpose bogeyman. No matter what the problem, school choice programs allegedly are at fault. A couple of things: First, charter schools are public schools; they are just public schools that are operated independently. Whenever someone wants to blame the ills of some school system on school choice, there are two data points that observers should keep in mind. School choice supporters are frequently painted as “free market zealots” or ideologues who see no faults with school choice and will champion it without the slightest equivocation.

Source: Forbes May 08, 2018 13:30 UTC