Readers discuss issues of equity, funding and transparency. March 7, 2021 Students at KIPP STAR Harlem College Prep charter school in 2019. KIPP runs more than 250 schools.Credit...Chang W. Lee/The New York Times To the Editor: Why do we allow two separate but seemingly parallel systems of education, using scarce public funds that are taken from traditional public schools to fund charters, a seeming experiment gone awry? Why do we allow one entity that is accountable and has governance conveyed from the voters in each community and allow the other to avoid the same transparency and accountability? Here in Ohio, charters are exempt from 150 sections of law that the public schools must be in compliance with to legally operate, yet the public schools are required to support charters with the school district’s transportation system and other services at no cost.