The Ugly Truth about Charter Schools: Padded Cells, Corruption, Lousy Instruction and Worse Results.

Charter schools are a form of privatization. In general, privatization is presented as a way to make some service more efficient, but its real effect is to enrich a few. That's true in this case, but it also represents a way for the state to abandon poor people, now increasingly considered superfluous by the plutocratic state.