I too have concerns about charter schools and I suspect that they will end up making the American school system better for a few kinds of families but even more

I too have concerns about charter schools and I suspect that they will end up making the American school system better for a few kinds of families but even more unequal, segregated, and expensive. However, your assumptions about the motivations of charter school proponents seems uncharitable. The proponents I know come by their position honestly -- they truly believe that vouchers and charter schools are good solutions to the problems facing our nation's students.