I don't think those in pubic education are afraid of competition, but results show that charter schools as a whole do not do a great job of educating kids. I also believe public education is the benchmark of our democracy.  It is people like DeVos who don't seem to understand the importance of public education to our democracy.  Did you listen to the hearing when she was asked questions?  She's clueless about education.

Why do you say Common Core isn't working?  It's just a set of standards--it's the tests and what some districts read into CC that make it unwieldy.  Like anything else, it probably needs to be tweaked.