The North Carolina Senate Bill 8 removal of all limits on the number of charter schools should be canceled and postponed. Current evidence does not adequately prove the success or failure of charter schools. We need to investigate more on the minimum requirement for a charter school to succeed in meeting its expectations and make sure that those conditions will be available by the time the charter “cap” is removed again.
The expected impact of charter schools including on student achievement. Charter schools have been positively received by most of the educational and political stakeholders thanks to its innovative approach to the traditional educational system. “Supporters tout charter schools as emblems of much-needed market incentives in …show more content…
Charter schools seem to gain a lot of popularity and demand which explains the high satisfaction rates among the families. In fact, parents are one of the supporters of charter schools, claiming that their kids are well-off in charter schools. But this may not mean that children are doing better academically but probably are enjoying their time at school since parents gave more importance to demographics than test scores (Henig 2008 p.110). However, data shows that this parental support “declined and disappeared in the end of five years” (Henig 2008 p.118). In fact, “in Texas students exit from charter schools at a more than double the rate of exit from the traditional public schools (some of those exits are out of state or to other charter school)” (Henig 2008 p.117). Charter schools’ biggest opponent is the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) “which claimed that standardized test scores were lower among charter school students than among those in public schools” (Davies 2008, p.723). In addition to low test scores, charter schools were said to decrease the intergroup exposure in Chicago, Milwaukee and little Rock where “black charter school students transferred into charter schools with lowest percentages of black students that that of their previous traditional schools” (Ladd & Fiske, 2008). A second important supporter of the charter schools is the government and most specifically the presidency of the united states. As a response to AFT’s report, they collected their data and proved that “the average test scores in charter schools were higher than public schools” (Davies 2008, p.724). Their evidence focuses on the conditions in which the failing charter schools are functioning: students with disabilities or those with
The expected impact of charter schools including on student achievement. Charter schools have been positively received by most of the educational and political stakeholders thanks to its innovative approach to the traditional educational system. “Supporters tout charter schools as emblems of much-needed market incentives in …show more content…
Charter schools seem to gain a lot of popularity and demand which explains the high satisfaction rates among the families. In fact, parents are one of the supporters of charter schools, claiming that their kids are well-off in charter schools. But this may not mean that children are doing better academically but probably are enjoying their time at school since parents gave more importance to demographics than test scores (Henig 2008 p.110). However, data shows that this parental support “declined and disappeared in the end of five years” (Henig 2008 p.118). In fact, “in Texas students exit from charter schools at a more than double the rate of exit from the traditional public schools (some of those exits are out of state or to other charter school)” (Henig 2008 p.117). Charter schools’ biggest opponent is the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) “which claimed that standardized test scores were lower among charter school students than among those in public schools” (Davies 2008, p.723). In addition to low test scores, charter schools were said to decrease the intergroup exposure in Chicago, Milwaukee and little Rock where “black charter school students transferred into charter schools with lowest percentages of black students that that of their previous traditional schools” (Ladd & Fiske, 2008). A second important supporter of the charter schools is the government and most specifically the presidency of the united states. As a response to AFT’s report, they collected their data and proved that “the average test scores in charter schools were higher than public schools” (Davies 2008, p.724). Their evidence focuses on the conditions in which the failing charter schools are functioning: students with disabilities or those with