Charter schools are not inherently good or bad. The benefits can be that they usually have a specific purpose (say stem). The biggest problem is that they take tax dollars and then play by a different set of rules. Sometimes they can target the best students. The local public school is then left with fewer resources and a more challenging populous. Politically, don’t be fooled. Conservatives don’t care about charter schools or really think it is a better system. Their plan is to make the already struggling school system worse.