What's unclear is how a state hell - bent on financial austerity can afford to create what is essentially a new parallel school system of taxpayer supported charter schools. (salon.com)
Catholics were burdened with creating a parallel school system because of some ecclesiastical hair splitting. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The paper reported that «charter schools have become a parallel school system unto themselves, a system controlled largely by for - profit management companies and private landlords — one and the same, in many cases — and rife with insider deals and potential conflicts of interest.» (educationnext.org)