Studies are all over the map, often depending on who funded them, and which charter/set of charter schools you're looking at. Plenty have found charters are no better, and often worse -- all it takes is a google search and you will turn up hundreds of reasons why charter schools are problematic. Of course when some parents think charter schools are better -- because it's become a mainstream narrative backed by big money -- they are going to seek them out and keep their kids enrolled. If you were concerned with finding the truth, you could read a book like this, for example: http://www.amazon.com/Myths-Threaten-Americas-Public-Schools/dp/0807755249 -- there is a whole section on the "myth" of charter schools, and it is written by a prominent group of education researchers who have no agenda in promoting their own business. However, I don't feel like wasting any more time arguing with you, because you continue to talk around my arguments, the main one being "demand does not make something constitutional." You seem bent on believing that charters (or perhaps anything) are good due to their business model, despite the dissent from a growing number of parents, students, teachers, researchers, and the highest court in Washington State. I don't ask anyone to simply believe me, I ask them to think differently and use their own resources to look at things from a different angle. You haven't done that, you are accepting the narrative that falls apart when you "follow the money" behind it. It's pretty easy to find the truth about this issue for anyone who actually tries and doesn't just believe the first "study" they come across, or a set of preconceptions that simply says "business = competition = good." Good luck.