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Charter Schools

TodayÆs schools face problems that go far beyond what schools have traditionally had to deal with in past generations: poor morale, low educational standards, lower-caliber teachers in some instances, and student behavior problems. Our nation has turned-off students, disgruntled teachers, and frustrated principals who are all drowning in a sea of rules and regulations that do little or nothing to stem the flowing tide of illiteracy, rebellion, and general apathy regarding education. In spite of many efforts to change these conditions, our schools remain broken and ineffective. Of the options available for remedying the problems in todayÆs schools, charter schools hold the greatest promise for an effective solution.

publicly funded elementary or secondary schools that that have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each charter school's charter (ôCharter Schoolsö).

Such schools are free to redefine the educational experience by thinking outside the box, as long as they can meet their educational objectives as specified in the charter; this means that their approach can be creative and nonconformist as long as the results are good. Charter schools can also become the seedbed for new teaching methods thatùonce proven effectiveùcan later be translated into the public school environment to improve education there, as well.

There are a number of reasons that charter schools can provide the solution to the educational systemÆs woes. To begin with, they provide competition for public schoolsùsomething they have never had before and which can spark them to achieve higher goals (Lorenzen). For another thing, they introduce a modicum of fairness into the educational system that was seriously lacking before. Without charter schools, the only people who have options othe...

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