%0 Journal Article %T Backtalk: The social costs of proliferating charter schools %A Iris C. Rotberg %J Phi Delta Kappan %@ 1940-6487 %D 2019 %R 10.1177/0031721719841348 %X A wide range of research shows the impact of charter schools on segregation by race, ethnicity, income, disability, language, culture, or religion ¡ª or a combination of these variables. The segregation plays out in different situations and in different ways. Iris Rotberg describes how the competition for resources and students creates conditions where public schools have fewer resources to educate the students with the greatest need %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0031721719841348