Imagine a K-12 school that is organized and run by a group of concerned parents. The school is not a for-profit business, it is not affiliated with any religious organization and it does not charge tuition.

The administration and teachers are exclusively focused on delivering the best, highest-quality education for students possible. Students are taught using a proven academic curriculum that provides them with the fundamental knowledge needed to be successful at a selective university, at work, and in life.

They also learn that honesty, integrity, personal responsibility, and respect for others are essential character traits for a life well-lived and, more broadly, for their place in a functioning civil society.

Such schools do, in fact, exist. They are not private schools and they are not traditional public schools — they are charter-public schools, usually referred to as charter schools.

The most important advantage enjoyed by charter schools relative to traditional public schools is freedom. Charter schools are free to use common-sense approaches to education rather than being constrained to follow policies and procedures dictated by bureaucrats unfamiliar with students and their families.

For example, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, good charter schools chose to continue to offer in-class instruction while most traditional public schools, often due to pressure from their employee unions, were only allowed to offer remote instruction.

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