The CBE offers Arts, GATE, STEM, TLC, Montessori, Indigenous, All Girls, All Boys, and Language Specific Schools, Career & Tech... often rejecting students. In fact I applied one of my kids for one of these programs and was rejected. So the CBE does not grantee acceptance in any program they offer.
I do understand the distinction between charter schools and general programs, even if I reject the premise that you are guaranteed acceptance in a general program, because people are often refused admittance to these schools and sent elsewhere against their wishes.
But you can argue until you are blue in the face, I don't see the distinction between the programs above and charter schools, other than how the school board is appointed. And I do not find civic elections a particularly great way to select a trustee, where we select some random person we know nothing about to sit on the board.
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