Charter Schools Vs School Vouchers

Imagine if only one size of clothes were sold in stores and government regulations don’t allow any other size to sell to consumers. This may sound crazy, but it’s much like what’s happening with the education. For traditional public education, the public school system offers a one-size-fits-all method of education of children in the decades. Enter the 21st century, more and more children began to fall behind in a rapidly changing environment marked by the introduction of personal computers and later the internet. Many people began to push for a new educational model which can keep up with the times. Both charter schools and school voucher programs are collectively referred to as “school choice” initiatives, as they allow parents free selection

Imagine again the one-size-fits-all clothes store, how can they stay in business if another store offered all kinds of sizes and styles? Simple, they couldn’t, in the face of competition that provide a better choice for consumers. The traditional public school system of the past had no competition. There was no incentive to improve the quality of education they provided since there was nothing to measure it against. The school choice movement for the first time introduced an alternative to poorly performing public schools. Charter schools make a commitment or charter, to achieve a measurable level of educational performance in a defined period of

The choice of school is one of the most active opponents have been the National Education Association, which is representing the public education professionals. The positions the NEA has taken on other issues have often been criticized for its members to support labor interests instead of the best students. One of the programs the NEA has been most vocal against has been school voucher, claims that voucher amount to government funding of religious based schools. On the contrary, citizens can keep a part of taxpayers' money that would have been spent on local public school funding and apply it to a school of their choosing. It is the citizen rather than the government that selects and contributes to a private school, whether it is religiously based or not. Consider families that are already sending children to private schools, they must pay the private school tuition and in addition to the tax burden for a public school they are not even attending. This double burden is unfair and amounts to a government fine for families that pursue a private education without the help of