[phkahler]

>> Charter schools are public schools - they are just less regulated ones.

No, they are not. They are run by private corporations. That's like saying McDonalds is a public restaurant because they are open to the public. Please don't mix common understanding of what words mean with some plausible other use of those words, it does not actually help your cause.

[wil421]

Not sure where you live but in Georgia charter schools are not run by private corporation like McDonalds. They take public funding just like every school but have more freedom in their curriculum.[1] They are not governed by a board of education but by a non profit board with less rules but higher accountability by the state.

[1]http://www.gadoe.org/external-affairs-and-policy/charter-sch...

[discardedrefuse]

Charter schools are run by for-profit management companies.

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/special-reports/cashing-in-o...

[simeonf]

You are factually incorrect.

In North American usage a "public school" is a school open to the public and run on public funds (tax monies) instead of funded by charging students for access.

A charter school is just an independently run public school. Some are run by parent companies that are for-profit corporations running multiple schools. Some are not. I have a daughter enrolled in a charter school started and run by teachers and parents. No parent corporation is involved and it shares facilities amicably with a traditional public school.

[Joky]

What is the difference between a charter school and a private school then? Why do a charter school gets the same amount of public money from the district as the other school in the district?