<p>This theoretical essay takes up charter schooling as a form of neoliberal educational reform. This essay grapples with multiple theoretical ideas to present a novel way of thinking about charter schooling, especially charter networks, as a form of racialized enclosure. This essay uses the concept of “the commons”—a form of communal wealth that historically nourished the masses—and applies it to public education. We do so to understand the charter school movement as a form of enclosure, a move towards taking a public good and limiting access to it to create a private gain. We argue that this process acts as a form of accumulation by dispossession that is racialized in how it is enacted. We present charter schools as a form of racialized enclosure that ultimately creates a privatized gain while ultimately failing to deliver on promises of better schooling, most frequently in urban spaces. We conclude with a brief section on resistance to charter schooling.</p>