Are Charter Schools Better Than Public Schools?

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Monday, August 28. 2017

Are Charter Schools Better Than Public Schools?

I don't know what "better" means. I like choice.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 15:25 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Charter schools are inherently superior than public schools in one key difference; if a charter schools is not better than the competing public school(s) it can and will close.

#1 Ken in NH on 2017-08-28 17:16 (Reply)

Could they be worse?

#2 LAG on 2017-08-28 18:11 (Reply)

Charter schools could be the only way to save public schools. Competition.

#3 GoneWithTheWind on 2017-08-28 18:32 (Reply)

Charter schools are public schools. The good ones improve their communities, and the bad ones will hopefully go quietly into the night. It is not the charter schools that will fix public schools it is parents taking back their rights and their responsibility to give their children a good education.

#4 ama on 2017-08-28 23:51 (Reply)

Short answer: NO

There is a move afoot to create 'charter schools' with funding from various sources with the goal of offering choice to populations from districts with failing schools.

When you take the same demographics from a failing public school and put them in a charter school, you will, for the most part, get a failing charter school. The slight increase in measureable factors is due to the fact that it takes a tiny bit more effort for a parent to sign a kid up for a charter school.

Bottom line? We don't need better schools. We need better parents and students.

#5 mostly cajun (Link) on 2017-08-29 09:26 (Reply)

We need education and not public education as it is currently practiced. Current public education is a unionized monopoly that, like any other government business, places the welfare of its employees ahead of the welfare of its citizens. It also practices propaganda and political correctness which shows up everywhere today from grade school to university. Let parents decide how to educate their children with credits that can be applied to a schooling of choice whether public, private, home, tutors, or apprenticeships. There is a reason that government schools and government health care are floundering...get the government part OUT.

#6 indyjonesouthere on 2017-08-29 16:16 (Reply)

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