ABSTRACT
Education policy is deeply rooted in wider neoliberal governance in America today. In terms of the influence of neoliberalism on subjectivities, the logic of neoliberalism attempts to erase issues surrounding inequality and positions individual students as equal players where they falsely come to understand themselves as "responsible for the production of a self". As perhaps the most significant neoliberal policy experiment in the American educational landscape, charter schools remain a contentious topic in popular discourse. As a policy experiment, charter schools were originally expected to encourage educational innovation in governance/management, school organization and teaching/learning, with the intent of operating more efficiently than regular public schools. Charter School Management Organizations (CMOs) often adopt and organize themselves around specific themes and missions, closely aligned with the wider educational reform movement, which inculcate both teachers and students into strong cultures.
