Charter Schools

That only private schools can elude bureaucratic micro-management.

That worthwhile school choice can be achieved only through vouchers.

That the left-leaning politics of public education have barred the schoolhouse door against any encroachment by entrepreneurial systems.

(Finn, Manno, Bierlein, and Vanourek, 1997, 1)

A charter school basically represents a hybrid school when compared to traditional schools. It is a public institution that is open to all who qualify to attend. It is paid for through tax dollars. It is accountable for performance and behavior standards. It has the authority to operate for a specified period and only has its charter renewed if performance expectations are met. In all these ways it resembles the traditional public school. However, unlike the traditional public school, a charter school is more like a private institution of learning when it comes to management for it is primarily self-governed, free from most regulations that pertain to public schools, and able to control its own hiring and curriculum. This analysis will cover some of the history of charter schools, the current status of the charter school movement in the United

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siphon away money for public education and give it to private institutions” (Blossom, 1999, 4). Still, many parents, educators and legislators believe that charter schools represent an effective alternative to the woes that plague public education, particularly in many poor urban districts. Yet, the current status of charter schools is that they are considered a new and fairly unproven alternative to traditional public schooling. So, too, those who operate charter schools are often faced with hostility, government red-tape and inefficiency, and other challenges because of the new and relatively unproven nature of charter schools. For example, in California, where charter schools are popular and many, the state legislature failed to write into its budget a measure to provide timely funding for charter schools. The result of this may cause the majority of new schools to open to fail because they must serve students for three-quarters of the year without funding “This delay is the result of the last-minute language put into a budget trailer last year that limited the timely funding of new charter schools to the 1999-2000 year. I can’t think of anything as damaging for a new charter school than funding it seven months late! Cha
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