Only so many kids can attend a charter school so what about the kids left behind???
If they do a better job educating the kids (something I'm not sure of, and opponents can't decide on), then more charter schools, of course.
Also fire shitty teachers and so on (good luck with the teachers' unions).
Funding is an issue, but there's no correlation between increased funding and increased student performance.
All of our public schools all over the state have been woefully under funded by the State legislature to the point our State Supreme Court has been leveling fines against the state to the tune of thousands of dollars a day, money that is coming right out of the general fund, yet, those in the legislature of both political parties continue to drag their feet and refuse to fully fund k-12 education.
1. Per the latest available figures, per-pupil funding has only dropped like 2% since 2008 (probably due to the recession, but I haven't researched that). If salaries are dropping, programs are being eliminated, and they can't afford books, it seems pretty tough to argue it's because the money's not there.
2. Those fines haven't come out of anything, at least not yet- the legislature has to appropriate the money for the fines, and the court has no authority to force them to do so.