Charter Schools: A New Era in American Education

Charter Schools vs. Public Schools

When American's think of education, they usually think of public education.

However, through the years this has slowly been changing. The new phenomena to hit

the education scene is charter schools. Charter schools are independently run public

schools granted greater flexibility in its operations, in return for greater accountability for

performance and also funded by the public.This means that the government of that

respective state has no influence on that school. So, the principals and teachers get to

choose what to teach and how to teach the children. School reformers keep talking

about charter schools as if they were the solution to public education issues in America,

when there is a great deal

Quality, not quantity

should drive the discussion of how many charters do we need?” As i said, this brings up

a good point as to how to fix this open and obvious problem with charter schools.

however, not all charter schools are bad, and some might argue that overall, charter

The Positives of charter schools

One of the main positive features of charter schools is being able to have more

of a choice in the matter for the child’s education. Public schools today, cannot change

their way of teaching students. Even if the teacher disagrees with a certain method they

still have to use that method. parents too, don’t make much of an impact in public

schools. also, charter school financing is taken care of by the public, so parents do not

face the large tuition bills that they would if they sent their children to private school. The

public financing charter schools receive is great because it means that many children

whose families cannot afford private schools still get to send their children to schools

where they have many opportunities for success; depending on the charter school.

Charter schools also have more flexibility when it comes to how they spend