Reply #13: You're ignoring evidence.

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It's not just a couple schools that are a problem here. The problem is systemic and predictable and almost no one in my state (MN) is asking the hard questions. And the "freedom" is resulting in failures so egregious that had they occurred in regular public schools would result in the implosion of public education.

You need to ask yourself why these failures are being rationalized by the very people who are running these schools. See the other thread on charters for more comments from others and myself, including several links.

The bottom line is that the evidence shows that charters do no better and often much worse than regular public schools. That's the opposite of what all the charter advocates said would happen. Now they come up with other rationalizations for their existence when they're shown to be failing.