<p>Given that local public schools have faced market variability arising from provider and population changes, this study seeks to develop an in-depth understanding of how public school availability has changed over time. By focusing on changes in the number of traditional public schools and charter schools between the 1995–1996 school year and the 2019–2020 school year, this study highlights time-variant changes in geographical access to tax-supported schools in Wayne County, Michigan. This study reveals a spatial mismatch between the rise of charter schools and the decline of traditional public schools, by demonstrating that the discontinuation of services at charter schools has not led to the re-opening of community schools. Because non-choosers are at risk of losing access to neighboring public schools due to the expansion of the charter school movement and the unintentionally precipitated closure of community schools, closures of educational businesses can lead to displacement, loss of equal opportunity, and accumulation through dispossession. Such ongoing loss of neighborhood schools and charter schools in disadvantaged communities raises the possibility of slow violence by suggesting how public policies invisibly and gradually reinforce dispossession.</p>