When public forums are framed in deliberately misleading language, we know there’s harmful intent to spread disinformation. In Washington, D.C., anti-charter school forces are organizing community forums clad in pleasing language like “transparency” and “accountability.” But their ultimate goal is the destruction of education choices for some of the most vulnerable children of Washington. Those choices lifted a failed, mismanaged system out of disaster, improved education for thousands and brightened the futures for tens of thousands of kids.

Thanks to charter schools, students once stuck in failing schools are learning, people are moving back to the city specifically for those schools, and the economy is booming.