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Most of the charter schools that screen do not set themselves up as elite academies for the gifted. They bill themselves as open to all.
For two decades, that promise of accessibility and equity has proved a potent political argument, resulting in the expansion of the number of charters and their share of public funding.
Yet, they pick only the students who are going to make their test scores look good.