There is a thread on this forum about it. I don't recall the name of it off the top of my head, but it was prompted by a study written about in one of the dailies. The gist of it was that the charter students didn't perform any better on standardized tests than their public school counterparts. And charter schools aren't saddled with the legacy costs of contract obligations, and in general aren't burdened with special needs children like the public system.
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