Education is a supreme public good. Privately-run charter schools do nothing more than siphon money away from state-run schools. Competition does exist in the p

Education is a supreme public good. Privately-run charter schools do nothing more than siphon money away from state-run schools. Competition does exist in the public education sector. To wit: magnet schools. Even if privately-run charters issue a certain number of needs-based scholarships or give preference to minorities or lower-income students by reserving a certain number of slots in a lottery-based system, these private charters will over time return us to a world where by and large only the economically privileged are educated.