@2 Or graduation rates, college acceptance, scores on standardized tests, drop out rates, etc.

Finally turning the corner to better education for our state.

If people really want to solve inequities in public education, legislators should give public schools the same flexibility that charters have. Why is this such a big problem for people to figure out? This will NOT help the education gap in our state, because private charters don't have to keep challenging students, get special ed workarounds, and are run for profit. None of this will help students in the long run, and one can easily see this from the research already done on charters. I can't argue with the reading of the law by the state supreme court about funding, but I can argue with the idea that charters are better than public schools at solving problems with gaps in education. This is a real bummer ruling.

@1 Personally, I'm most interested in student satisfaction/engagement, but parental satisfaction comes next.

https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/pubs/20104029/pdf/20104029.pdf

Study charter schools positively affected parent and student satisfaction with and perceptions of school. Lottery winners and their parents were significantly more satisfied with their schools than lottery losers according to all 11 measures of student and parent satisfaction and perceptions examined by the study, after adjustment for multiple hypothesis testing. For instance, lottery winners were 13 percentage points more likely to report they “like school a lot” than lottery losers (Figure 3). Similarly, the parents of lottery winners were 33 percentage points more likely to rate their child’s school as “excellent” than parents of lottery losers."

@5 Public schools regularly get rid of "trouble" students. A small percentage of charters are for-profit. There are many poor people who are grateful for their local charter. I have friends (loyal Democrats) who send their transitioning daughter to a charter (non-profit) and the school has bent over backwards to make her feel comfortable and safe.

Rich people get to choose what schools their kids go to. Poor people should get those choices to.

To be clear, charters won't solve the primary problem of schooling, which is that kids have little to no autonomy and have to temporarily memorize mostly useless information for testing purposes.