How Do Charter Schools Affect Public Schools?

Public schooling has been around for hundreds of years, when the first public school was founded in Boston in 1821. There has been a massive change in how children were taught. Prior to this change, the only available schooling was from private schools. This meant that only children of rich families could normally afford this type of education. Yet, with public schools beginning to pop up across the the country, they soon outnumbered the amount of private schools the U.S had. Public schools, more commonly known as state schools, were made with the goal to allow any child to attend school without charge, with taxes being used to fund the schools. With this, it helped many families, more so the ones who could not afford the more expensive option. For years, this system worked like clockwork. More and more public schools were …show more content…
Yet, as the years went by, public schools were not doing enough. Albert Shanker, who was a very prominent in the education field, believed that charter schools could help “reinvent” the public educations system. Inspired by other European nations, he came up with the charter school idea. Although many believe charter schools will negatively affect the public education system, charter schools actually benefit public education, specifically in urban areas. While technically similar types of charter schools have been around in different countries far longer than the United States charter school programs have been, they have been a major help in developing the concept of the charter schools seen in the U.S today. As mentioned before Albert Shanker was the man to create this charter school concept. Inspired primarily from the