Word: charter
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...Both charter schools and vouchers allow for accountability and innovation. They are freed from bureaucratic hassles and provide for healthy competition, making other public schools raise their standards of instruction and results...
...most powerful political forces in America, is opposing school reform with all its might. In several states the NEA has sued county school boards which have tried to implement these reforms. They argue that any public money that goes to parochial schools violates the First Amendment and that charter schools and vouchers will compel the best students to leave crumbling schools, leaving teachers with kids who are harder to educate...
There are reform programs that can change this. One of these, currently under consideration by school boards around the country, is charter schools...
...Charter schools are semi-autonomous public schools run by an administration free from a central bureaucracy. Their charter demands specific educational goals of all its students. If students do not meet these goals, the school is simply closed. Charter schools can be funded by businesses and private foundations, but are designed by teachers and educational innovators who do not have to go through the sea of red tape that many schools face today. The use new programs which are tailored to fit the needs of the students they serve. Freed from repetitive and bureaucratic compliance, teachers at charter schools...
...these schools have been largely successful. In Los Angeles, it typically takes local school districts a year to buy computers for its classrooms. But in San Fernando Valley's Vaughn Next Century Charter School, it took only six days-and the school paid less. In Mesa, Ariz., 2,000 students attend 50 charter schools, with phenomenal results. In Detroit, charter schools have been implemented to improve the poor results of inner city schools. According to Superintendent David Snead, "The charter idea is helping encourage other schools in our district to examine what they are doing." Polices such as these have...