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The Issues:
How Corporate Charter Schools Are Failing Our Communities

Corporate charter schools aren't just "another option"—they're systematically undermining public education through deliberate strategies that hurt our kids and communities.

We've identified four critical ways the charter industry is damaging our schools: They drain money. They dodge accountability. They divide communities. They abandon vulnerable students.

Following the Money

Every student who transfers to a charter takes thousands in funding, but your public school can't reduce its costs. These "stranded costs" force devastating cuts to programs, teachers, and resources for the kids who remain.

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Missing Accountability

Charter schools operate with private boards, closed meetings, and hidden finances—yet they receive billions in public funds. Unlike public schools where you can vote for change, charter schools answer to no one but themselves.
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Fractured Communities

When charter schools drain public school funding, entire schools close and neighborhoods lose their anchors. The result is increased segregation and the destruction of the community bonds that public schools create.
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Students Left Behind

Through discriminatory enrollment, "counseling out," and harsh discipline, charter schools systematically exclude special needs students, English learners, and struggling kids. These children return to public schools that now have fewer resources to help them.

Each of these isn't just a problem—it's a crisis that affects every family with children in public schools. And together, they represent an existential threat to public education as we know it.

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