Charter schools receive public money (not tuition from parents), but are not forced to operate under all of the same regulations as true public schools. It's more like a privately-operated school on welfare. That probably sounds negative, but I am just trying to be brief about it. The point is, it is very misleading for ABC to just blankly say that the school in question is a "public school", not a "private school". Despite the fact that the school is tax-supported, charter schools like the one shown are examples of how much better a school can be when the "public" system keeps its hands off of them.They really wasted a chance for viewers who don't have such options to learn about what is available in other areas.