Even if there are reasonable arguments to be made for flexibility in school operation and for parents to have greater school choice, the Charter School movement has just been a big theft of public money. In my state things are legally rigged in favor of this great ripoff in so many ways. And the problem is that there isn't enough money for the education vultures to steal because the same people who want to give all the education money to their pals also want to cut education money.
All of this was foretold by dirty hippies.