Reply #6: my daughter's charter high school is super progressive and ranked 20th in US among ALL schools [View All]

[zazen]

and is most certainly non-profit. Maybe other states allow for-profit schools to get charter money, but her school (and her middle grades charter school) are begging for money all the time.

The "privilege" of charter schools is that parents must provide their child's transportation, which disadvantages families that live too far away (though this is in downtown Raleigh) and are two-income earners without any flexibility (and money to share with other parents' for gas costs.) The school gets a lot done through the volunteer work of parents, which means that not all parents have to volunteer, but it does benefit from several stay at home parents who can help. But I found this in public regular schools in various neighborhoods in Cary/Morrisville. . . richer neighborhoods had so much more because parents donated and volunteered.

Thank you Freddie for pointing this out. I don't get the demonization of charter schools around here, but I guess I'm getting all the benefits (being unemployed and looking into food stamps at this point, we can use all the help we can get for her to snag a major scholarship).