I'd also say to the comment of UPC members kids getting paid school board jobs. Their blatant and repeated corruption is not because of or exclusive to charter schools, and stopping that doesn't stop the problem.
I do think there is a decent labor organizing arguments that public schools and charter schools essentially have the same employer and that the charter schools are piggybacking the ATAs negotiations without paying dues. It's a fair but somewhat less sympathetic argument.
But they aren't private schools. The CBE runs a bunch of programs that are essentially charter programs, that also have a substantial bias towards more engaged and affluent families, and reject hundreds of qualified applicants every year. who I'm sure do a much much better job of fund raising. The CBE also has large capital requests and many ongoing projects, if you cherry pick a sample of this year, some programs might be seeing more than others and the upc might have some perverse interest in undermining public education as a whole, because it just seems to liberal for them. that is not directly related to the charter schools that have been around for a few decades either. I would also argue that the entire concept of ccsb is the same, it's an inherently exclusionary program that often has the first "public" school in a given neighborhood, there are a lot of programs that a consistent person who has an issue with charter schools as an institution should be going after.
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