I absolutely adore the way the left proudly demonstrates their ignorance.  Guess what MushyWaffle . . . charter schools are PUBLIC schools, supported by your tax dollars, not private or religious schools.  Guess what else MushyWaffle.  A K-12 education in the Catholic schools in Denver costs roughly the same per pupil as a K-12 education in the DPS system and a good percentage of those Catholic schools are populated with students from the poorest neighborhoods in Denver attending the schools on scholarships provided by the Catholic community.  Those students in the Catholic schools outperform their public school counterparts from the same neighborhoods in every metric.  Education is the key to escaping poverty, but so-called liberals don't want these underprivileged minority students to escape poverty despite their rhetoric to the contrary.