Do charter schools hurt traditional public schools?

Do charter schools hurt traditional public schools?

Without a doubt, the question that I get most often about charter schools is, “But don’t they hurt the public schools?” Setting aside the fact that charter schools are public schools, the short answer is charter public schools don’t hurt traditional public schools any more than other factors that can affect enrollment.

Do charter schools discriminate?

Yes. When announcing your charter school or conducting outreach, you may not discriminate against students of a particular race, color, or national origin, or against students with disabilities. If your charter school is co-educational, then you may not discriminate in recruitment on the basis of sex.

How are charter schools discriminatory?

When announcing your charter school or conducting outreach, you may not discriminate against students of a particular race, color, or national origin, or against students with disabilities. If your charter school is co-educational, then you may not discriminate in recruitment on the basis of sex.

Do charter schools help or hurt public schools?

And yes, of course charter schools hurt public schools. In order for a charter school to succeed, it must take students from a public school. SPOILER ALERT: if that public school had been decent in the first place, students wouldn’t flee as if Jerry Sandusky inspects their locker room.

Who decides which charter schools are allowed to open and close?

Education researchers have found that what has worked, instead, is an enhanced role for entities known as charter authorizers — the official public agencies that decide which charter schools are allowed to open and which ones are forced to close. (Part of my wife’s job involves providing technical assistance to a state association of authorizers.)

Are charter schools a bipartisan alternative to vouchers?

Charter schools emerged as a bipartisan alternative to the GOP’s preferred policy: sending tax-payer funds to private religious schools via vouchers. In the Trump-era GOP, vouchers are ascendant once more.

Is it a mean Senator or congressman who is pro-school choice?

It is not a mean senator or congressmen who is pro-school choice that’s preventing your wee one from getting a better education. A rich (yes rich) teachers’ union is preventing little Johnny or little Janey from learning their multiplication tables. Or Jamal. Muhammad. Jose. Jazid. I made up the last name. Multiculturalism. No it isn’t.