Part of this sounds familiar, and part is a warning from a state that has been conducting the charter school experiment.

“Education should be about children, not adults.
For the past three years, Republicans wielded this powerful soundbite as a weapon while they reshaped public education in Michigan to fit their free-market ideology.
If you cared about kids, you backed their plan to help open dozens more online and charter schools run by good-hearted private businesses.
If you didn’t, you were determined to damn students to failing public schools so you could deviously enrich fat-cat union teachers.
The fact that outright falsehoods and gross oversimplifications passed for high-minded debate in the Legislature should make us all weep.
But the Republicans won. Now taxpayers are now spending $1 billion on charter schools every year to educate some 140,000 kids.
The scary part is there’s still almost no oversight of charters, which ‘enables scams and insider dealing,’ as we now know from an exhaustive, yearlong Detroit Free Press investigation.” http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/06/rick_snyder_michigan_charter_s.html#incart_river_default