Yep. There is very little in that (admittedly somewhat biased) piece which is technically untrue.

I'm not sure that the overall effect is fully truthful, because the author has (IMO having spent the past 6y looking at the gears and being part of the machine) done just as much cherry-picking as those that she's spearing.

But yes, I think that more careful scrutiny of some practices in this particular genre of charter school is in order. Long overdue, in point of fact.

When your marketing and lobbying expenses exceed your budget for professional development for your teachers... uhhhhhh... yeah. Something not right about that.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.