Samuel Abrams, director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, writes here about the likely effects of the influx of charter schools in Puerto Rico.
This is the abstract.
With the passage of the Education Reform Act in March 2018, Puerto Rico joined states across the mainland in authorizing charter schools as privately managed government-funded alternatives to conventional public schools. In this article, Samuel E. Abrams describes the origins of charter schools, their formal introduction with legislation in Minnesota in 1991 and evolution since, and their probable impact in Puerto Rico. While conceding that charter schools may diversify the educational landscape and serve many students well, Abrams cautions that charter schools can generate untoward division, as they tend to enroll fewer children with academic and behavioral challenges and more children of engaged parents. The exit of such parents from conventional public schools, he writes, compounds this division, as they take with them their voice to advocate for better schooling for all children. Abrams contends this problem of exit stands to have an especially strong effect in Puerto Rico given that 25% of K-12 students on the island already attend private schools compared to 10% across the mainland.
Citation: Samuel E. Abrams, Exit, Voice, and Charter Schools, 88 Rev. Jur. UPR 894 (2019).
Here is the full article.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This is another unfortunate example of vulture capitalists descending on a community of color after a natural disaster. The goal is to monetize their young people and profitize education. The result will be a loss for the community. The result will be the same as it is in every community that has had privatization imposed on it. The complicit politicians will starve the public schools and create a stream of money for investors in the charters. The resulting schools will result in greater inequality with classes led less prepared associates that work for less money. Former middle class teachers will lose their jobs, or they will be forced to work for less. Disruption does not make communities better, but investors could care less as long as they make money. The investors do not live in the area so the money will leave the island. Then, the investors will look for some other vulnerable community to attack. Rinse and repeat.
P.R. is in the crosshairs of the Center for American Progress (Gates-funded). A former Kaplan executive is leading CAP’s agenda on the island.
Hedge funds are the plague that keeps on taking.