Charter schools compete for the same low funding pool, while only accepting well performing non-SPED students, leaving public schools with less money and a hard

Charter schools compete for the same low funding pool, while only accepting well performing non-SPED students, leaving public schools with less money and a harder (& more expensive) student body. This artificially increases Charter School's performance, and artificially lowers Public School's performance. But this isn't an accident, Charter Schools are designed to de-fund public education for political reasons, and while discriminating against SPED kids is illegal, the % of SPED kids at charters is disproportionately low[0]. > Charter schools are significantly less likely to reply to students to the IEP message than to the baseline message, while traditional public schools are not. There is also some evidence that schools are less likely to respond to families with Hispanic-sounding names. [0] http://www.columbia.edu/~psb2101/BergmanMcFarlin_school_choice.pdf http://www.columbia.edu/~psb2101/BergmanMcFarlin_school_choi...