Not saying you're wrong, but I feel the need to point out the framing that something being controlled by government beurocrats is what makes it public by this d

Not saying you're wrong, but I feel the need to point out the framing that something being controlled by government beurocrats is what makes it public by this definition. Charter schools are often free to attend, available for anyone to apply to, and are accountable to the families attending them and the voters who elected officials that made them legal. That's a perfectly reasonable version of "public" as well, it's just not centralized.