This is a very obvious argument for privatization of any industry, but check out my response in this same comment thread. Consumers OBVIOUSLY have skin in the g

This is a very obvious argument for privatization of any industry, but check out my response in this same comment thread. Consumers OBVIOUSLY have skin in the game, but asking a consumer to figure out which charter schools are great and which are frauds and which are merely mediocre requires far more research than the average parent has time to do. The incentive for a charter school to misrepresent its achievements is very high, and once a parent has committed to putting their child in that school, the cost of moving them to another if/when they discover problems is very high. By that point, the charter school will have already taken the voucher funding and can use it to advertise to the next sucker.