What Are Charter Public Schools?
By Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler
Charter public schools are the public schools of the future: they are non-politically controlled, non-bureaucratic, free public schools of choice.
Traditional public schools have politically-elected or appointed school boards. Charter public schools are governmentally established, funded, regulated and accountable -- but so long as they perform academically and fulfill the conditions of
their charter, they are allowed to operate free from political interference.
Charter schools are extremely non-bureaucratic. They have a principal and teachers but relatively few administrators and office personnel.
Charter schools are free public schools of choice. They have no admission requirements and are open to all children free of charge. But no child is assigned to a charter public school. Parents must choose to enroll their child in a charter school and
the school receives public funding only on a per-child-enrolled basis.
All across the country, charter public schools are proving themselves to be highly effective, highly efficient public schools that achieve great educational results while spending less.
Meanwhile, charter public schools that do not measure up are closed.
You cannot get more accountable than that!
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Political corruption is a tradition here.
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