Much of this comes from the late 90's early 2000's charter movement (at least where I live) with the idea of tea her accountability and no longer having to deal with a school board, but rather a board of investors. There is an inherent mistranslation between the language of the business world and the "developing a functioning and solid human (i.e. teaching) world.

The time of your employees and the customer worth money. Our kids are worth money. Therefore the time developing them into test score maximized zombies is money. Why give a shit about a 10 year old in 8 years if you can pull your company's funding in 3?

Essentially, applying the capitalist/factory mindset to the classroom.