There was a clear pattern running through this year’s list of America’s best public high schools, compiled by US News & World Report.

It wasn’t that four of the top five schools are located in Arizona — though that does happen to be true. It’s that those four schools, and one other in seventh place, are all run by a charter school network founded by two economists nearly 20 years ago.

At a time when both the president and his secretary of education decry the state of US public schools, instead promoting private education, BASIS charter schools seem to offer a read more >>>

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