...PHI-105 Date: September 7, 2015 Instructor: Turk Ciftcikara Charter Schools Every parent wants the best education possible for their child/children. That’s why it is important that they’re given a choice or option to choose the best schools designed to fit the needs of their child/children. What does “Charter School” mean? Information retrieved from http://www.publiccharters.org/get-the-facts/public-charter-schools define charter schools as “a unique public school that are allowed the freedom to be more innovative while being held accountable for advancing student achievement.” Every child deserves the knowledge, skills, character, and habits to succeed college and beyond. Charter schools will give parents a peace of mind knowing that they are fostering a partnership to be involved in some of the top-performing schools in the country, getting their child/children into college and assisting with raising the bar of endless-possibilities. The first charter school was established in Minnesota in 1992, to provide parents and students with a greater educational choice within the public school system. Children who attends charter schools are provided with options to improve educational outcomes such as higher test scores in reading and math, better teacher to student ratios and increase innovative learning. Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) finds that urban charter schools are providing superior academic learning for their students...
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...Charter schools in New York, how effective are they to you! Nakia Mines DeVry University Professor Hartman The spread of charter schools in New York has been on the rise in the past couple of years. Charter schools are schools are financed by the public, but run independently through the educational system. There has been a lot of debate questioning the effectiveness of charter schools verses traditional public schools; who serves as the best interest for the students. Many prefer sending their children to charter schools instead of traditional public schools because of academic development. I say a child can receive the same education from both schools; it depends on how they receive and understand the information being taught. What is your intake on this situation; would charter schools be more beneficial to our children than traditional public schools? Keeping an open mind and evaluating all aspects between the schools, will be helpful when making an informative decision to the beginning of your child’s future. Charter schools have found to be very effective in New York and in other surrounding states. The charter program provides monitory, but strict academic standards for children to meet; also holding the teacher’s administration accountable for these standards as well. Charter schools are more focused on the academic levels and graduation acceleration for children instead of their social status. Since more students have been enrolled in charter schools...
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...Reference List: The Case for Charter Schools Deena Harrison Grand Canyon University: UNV 501 1/8/2014 Villavicencio, A. (2013). "It's Our Best Choice Right Now": Exploring How Charter School Parents Choose. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 21(81), 1-19. In this journal article, Research Associate at the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, Dr. Adriana Villavicencio, discusses the reasons why parents choose charter schools instead of the public school options available to them within the districts where they live. The author states that most people believe that charter schools are being chosen more because “quality drives consumer choice” (Villavicencio 2013). After interviewing parents who enrolled students in two different charter schools, Villavicencio discovers that parents do not necessarily make choices about school selection based upon school performance or quality, but on a variety of different influences such as socioeconomic status, school location, and education level of the parent. Blazer, C., & Miami-Dade County Public Schools, R. (2010). Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools. Information Capsule. Volume 1007. Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools. In this research article, author Christie Blazer, Senior Research Analyst at the Office of Accountability and System wide Performance in Miami-Dade County Public Schools, examines the differences in public and charter schools and compares performance...
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...English Composition ll May 12, 2013 Charter Schools There are many different types of schools that falls into the education world; Charter Schools are a part of that world that goes though the learning process, by following a set of steps. Charter schools intend to improve our school system, while operating independently of the school district. They are run by a non-for-profit organization, governed by parents, business leaders, and the education departments in the community. These schools provide instruction for grades K-12. Sometimes they are sponsored by an existing local public schools board. Charter schools do not have a right to charge tuition, and not discriminate against any pupil. The schools have to follow a fair and open admission process. Charters are public schools, with similar operations as a regular public school does. Charters around the world are admitted on a first come first served basis. Some schools use a lottery pick when the applicants exceed available slots in the area. Charter schools operate in exchange for greater accountably. They operate on there basic principles, which are Accountability, Choice, and Autonomy. The schools are held accountable for how the students are educated in a responsible environment. They take pride in how well they meet the student achievement goals. Charter schools are given a few years to have food standers on academic performance. By changes children are not performing well, and their academic performance...
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...English Composition ll May 12, 2013 Charter Schools There are many different types of schools that falls into the education world; Charter Schools are a part of that world that goes though the learning process, by following a set of steps. Charter schools intend to improve our school system, while operating independently of the school district. They are run by a non-for-profit organization, governed by parents, business leaders, and the education departments in the community. These schools provide instruction for grades K-12. Sometimes they are sponsored by an existing local public schools board. Charter schools do not have a right to charge tuition, and not discriminate against any pupil. The schools have to follow a fair and open admission process. Charters are public schools, with similar operations as a regular public school does. Charters around the world are admitted on a first come first served basis. Some schools use a lottery pick when the applicants exceed available slots in the area. Charter schools operate in exchange for greater accountably. They operate on there basic principles, which are Accountability, Choice, and Autonomy. The schools are held accountable for how the students are educated in a responsible environment. They take pride in how well they meet the student achievement goals. Charter schools are given a few years to have food standers on academic performance. By changes children are not performing well, and their academic performance...
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...Jane Doee ENG 106 May 26, 2009 Charter Schools Why charter schools? Public, Private, Magnet, and Charter schools all have one thing in common, that is a place where students can learn, jobs for educators, and a location with a purpose where parents feel safe to let their children go to learn and interact with others in the community. Charter schools have a unique way of teaching students. Charter schools are not only created to teach the basic reading, writing, and math, but, to bring originality and flexibility to advance student’s achievements. Charter schools are not nation wide as of yet because the population in the community does not know how beneficial they can be towards the community. Charter schools are privately run and publicly financed departments run by parents, educators, and companies. The state and federal tax dollars are based on enrollment, just like public schools are. There is no tuition to attend a charter school, and it is freely available to any student who wishes to enroll. Charter schools are legally obligated to state and federal academic standards. Charter schools can make a difference in the community by having an arranged schedule for students, parents, and educators to follow. Parents, who work during school hours and have no one to pick up their children from school, can have their children attend evening, or weekend classes to make up for lost time in school. Students who are struggling with their academics...
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...be charter schools. A charter school is a public school that operates independently of the district board of education. In order for a charter school to exist, a contract must be written. It can be written by anyone, for example: educators, parents, community leaders, entrepreneurs. The contract explains what the charter school’s goals will be and applicable accountability measures. After the charter is written...
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...A Charter School is a school established to provide students and parents with more choices in the types of educational opportunities and programs that are available within the public school system. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough School Board approves of community-based charter schools. All Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (MSBSD) Charter School programs are open to student’s applications who reside within the school district. Starting a charter school is truly a community effort. However, the rewards we may find by creating a new educational option for children are well worth the effort. The first question we want to answer is why do we want to start a charter school? As a charter developer, we need to have a clear answer to this question. Matanuska-Susitna Valley residents desire a school that provides a rich and comprehensive educational program for students with talents and potential in dance, instrumental music, vocal music, theatre, and visual art or media arts. This school will provide students and parents with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system to maximize each student’s special talents. Our graduates will increase the quality of their life, the lives of people who surround them, and the respective communities of the Valley. There are many people interested in helping to start our charter school waiting for recruitment. These founders will include parents, teachers, school principals...
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...number of charter schools is growing each year; the popularity increasing because of the declining success of traditional public schools that can be seen through the results of standardized testing. With charters increasing in popularity, President Obama used charter schools as a major political platform instead of reform of traditional schools to gain support from many democrats. The first official charter school began in 1991 in the school named City Academy in St. Paul Minnesota with its initial purpose being providing students with the greatest prospect of succeeding (Shober, Manna, & Witte). The concept of charter schools is credited to educator Ray Budde. “Budde suggested that groups of teachers be given contracts or “charters” by their local school boards to explore new approaches” (Chen, 1990). Since the initiation of the first charter school, teachers, legislatures, and communities have questioned if they were segregating students and if charter school policies are ethical. Currently there are approximately 5,760 charter schools—about 6% of the nation’s 96,000 public schools (Zubrzycki, Cavanagn, & McNeil, 2013)....
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... Charter Schools and Traditional public schools both have a profound effect on our students in many different ways but charter schools have much more of an effective way to get our Children not only through school but also through college. A large sum of students that have attended Charter schools have gone on to college receiving a 3.0 or higher. The Impact that education in Charter schools that have a college prep program is much more effective in student success than Public school education. Charter schools are publicly funded institutions that operate under their own standards of conduct and curriculum. Although these institutions are funded by tax dollars, charter schools are ultimately given the freedom to establish their own methods of operation, similar to how private schools are able to operate their instructional and social practices. Various studies and statistics reveals that students who come from lower-income families or students that are English language learners revealed higher success and performance rates in charter schools than in public school. According to the DC fiscal policy institute, the median proficiency level at the 43 charter schools studied rose from 44.2 to 50.2 percent from 2008 to 2012, while it fell from 40.4 to 36.7 percent at the 109 public schools. Charter schools serving low-income children are outperforming comparable traditional schools at many charter schools. Public schools are funded with tax...
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...Bingham academy is a great school because it's kind of Charter, but also public. Both my mother and I chose this school and we loved this school from the beginning. So many things about the school were good, from the teachers to the classes. It was and is still great to be at this school and I wouldn't choose another. I chose here because this school seemed great. It was also a charter school, which was great for me since I haven't been good with public schools. Being a little kid, I was always the “weird one” and bullied for this. So my mother decided I wouldn't go to public schools again and this school helps me out. The students here are friendlier than people at a lot of schools i've been to. It's not just...
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...Benefits for Children of Charter Schools? A charter school is a public school that is independently run. It is granted greater flexibility by the state government for its operations, but it needs to give greater accountability for the student’s performance than regular public schools give. The charter is basically a performance contract that gives the details of the school’s program including its mission, performance goals, methods of assessment and students served. People who are interested in quality education such as Peter Briger Fortress Investment Group principal and co-chairman of the board promote charter schools to provide college preparatory education for students in a certain locality. Is There a Difference Between...
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...A charter school like Gulf Coast Academy of Science and Technology is a better opportunity for my education than regular public school. Gulf Coast Academy is a better school for me because it is a hands-on school. Hands on work helps with understanding the work I’m doing. Hands on work on can help activate my brain. At Gulf Coast Academy, I will have frequent field experiences. Frequent field experiences will help me learn better. Kids like me see differently in real life than in a books or pictures. I learn better if I do things in real life. Gulf Coast Academy has limited class sizes. The smaller class sizes help with distractions and talking because some kids get distracted easily. I know I get distracted sometimes. Increase on time...
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...Question # 2 After doing my research online about various elementary schools, the one that I think will best met my five-year-old needs is a Montessori Charter School or a charter school that incorporates a Montessori curriculum. Charter schools are public, tuition-free schools that are open to all students. Charter schools are often operated independently from traditional school district. In addition, they provide high quality instructions from teachers who have the autonomy to design a classroom that fits her students’ needs(www.publiccharters.org). Montessori is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. In Montessori classrooms children make creative choices in their learning,...
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...Education is a complex topic that is often debated. Questions about school quality, accountability, curriculum, and teacher training arise each day. These issues and more influence parents or students to chose between public schools and charter schools. According to Merriam –Webster dictionary, a public school is a school that is funded and controlled by a local government. Public schools cannot charge tuition. Whereas charter schools, as explained by Us news report, are publicly funded institutions that operate under their own standards of conduct and curriculum outside the realm of local public school districts. Although these institutions are occasionally funded by tax dollars, charter schools are ultimately given the freedom to establish...
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