"...Many parents choose charters not because they want to, but because without fully funded, high-functioning local public schools, they feel they have to. If your community schools are riddled with problems, of course you're likely to take a chance on a charter. But that's a false choice. If we funded education the way we should, across the board, for every student, we wouldn't need charters. It's easier to talk about privatizing schools than it is to discuss poverty, racism and other socioeconomic factors that led to the problems in our most struggling schools. Problems which educators are somehow expected to overcome, often without basic provisions."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35443-campbell-brown-the-new-leader-of-the-propaganda-arm-of-school-privatization