A reader writes from North Carolina, where far-right Republicans control state government and are more than willing to hand public schools over to the private sector to mine for profit:

In North Carolina, the Republican dominated legislature lifted the cap on charter schools, provided a fast track approval process, and created a new certification board stocked with corporate cronies and charter school proponents. Now communities like mine, Chapel Hill, that love their neighborhood schools are having new charters, many of them run by for profit franchises, rammed down our throats with state approval and backing.