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Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States which have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter.[1]
There are two principles which guide charter schools. First is that they will operate as autonomous public schools. This is effected by gaining waivers from many of the procedural requirements of public schools. The second is that they will use innovative pedagogy. To justify their waivers and autonomy, they are supposed to produce results superior to non-charter schools. Studies have shown that charter schools are rarely closed for poor academic performance.[4]
The rules and structure of charter schools depend on state authorizing legislation, and differ from state to state. A charter school is authorized to function once it has received a charter, a statutorily defined performance contract detailing the school's mission, program, goals, students served, methods of assessment, and ways to measure success. The length of time for which charters are granted varies, but most are granted for 3-5 years. Charter schools are meant to be held accountable to their sponsor—a local school board, state education agency, university, or other entity—to produce positive academic results and adhere to the charter contract.
State-run charter schools (schools not affiliated with local school districts) are often established by non-profit groups, universities, and some government entities [2].
I asked my mom about that the other day and she said it was where they test different learning processes and different ways than the way the city wants them to so it's kind of a tester school..
i think its a school that gets there money from companies and such. not sure though.
i know a shoe salesman that is now teaching at one, does that tell you anything
i'm not kidding either
its a school that can make their own rules
It's a type of school were the school administration has almost total control power on how the school is run and the city has very little to say about it.
school with open enrollment chartered by the state instead of a school district.
its where people who have got mental parents go
a REAL WHITE SCHOOL!!
No their all wrong. A charter school is a school where its sorta like a private school but instead of paying your parents do community hours aswell as you. In mine we have to wear uniform and they are really strict with us.
Charter schools are publicly funded elementary or secondary schools in the United States which have been freed from some of the rules, regulations, and statutes that apply to other public schools, in exchange for some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter.[1]
State-run charter schools (schools not affiliated with local school districts) are often established by non-profit groups, universities, and some government entities
i am not completely sure but i believe its more like a private school. Where u have to live in the neighbor hood be get into it. And u have to wear uniformes
A public charter school is a publicly funded school that, in accordance with an enabling state statute, has been granted a charter exempting it from selected state or local rules and regulations. A charter school may be newly created, or it may previously have been a public or private school; it is typically governed by a group or organization (eg, a group of educators, a corporation, or a university) under a contract or charter with the state
A charter school is like almost a privite school but It's not there suppost to be really good schools.
The reality is that charter schools skim off the wealthy (typically white) students from the school districts and use these kids scores to show how much better they are than public schools. Alternatively, they skim off a specific religious group. There is money to be made in this, and it is becoming a big business.
The evidence is that charter schools perform at about the same level as public schools, but typically leave the problem, poor, special needs, minority, students in the public schools.
Up until this time many of the answers that you have received are incorrect. A good source says that:
"A public charter school is a publicly funded school that, in accordance with an enabling state statute, has been granted a charter exempting it from selected state or local rules and regulations. A charter school may be newly created, or it may previously have been a public or private school; it is typically governed by a group or organization (eg, a group of educators, a corporation, or a university) under a contract or charter with the state"
The key element is that the school has received written permission form the state. That is what we call a charter. The school is also exempted from some of the state regulations and the governing body of the school is not the local Board of Education but is certain types of agencies.
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Ok I have a friend that ran a charter school and my sister in law had her children involved in a Charter school for awhile.
Your child is home with you, but basically you do all the work thru the Charter school. They send out a Teacher to check the work and do testing. It is funded by the government just like Public Schools so in a sense it isn't true homeschooling. You pay for all the supplies, curriculmn and often they provide a computer for your child to use.
It is run like a Public school so you have to keep that in mind.
A charter school is a privated run school that gets a charter to be annexed into the public school system for transfers and students and also get Federal funding.
It's sort of like a private run Magnet school.
You've already had several good responses. Most charter schools are brick-and-mortar schools with classrooms where students attend five days per week. Specifically in the homeschool discussion, charter schools (at least in CA) refer to public school programs where the students learn at home, for the most part. In some states, charter schools would technically not be "homeschooling" , but in CA it is one of the options for home schools:
http://www.hslda.org/laws/analysis/calif...
Here's an article I wrote describing more details about home-study charter schools, again this is how they operate in CA, other states may vary:
http://giftedhomeschoolers.org/articles/...
My husband and I work on a boys ranch where the boys that are permenantly placed here can not go to school for emotional and mental reasons. (Not mental like retardation, mental as in huge trauma in thier past) We homeschooled the boys until the state passed a law for state kids that they have to attend "real" school.
So we became a charter school. We are going through Connections Academy. (www.connectionsacademy.com)
The boys do school on the computer everyday. They do all the subjects just as if in homeschool or public school, and they have daily assignments they are given and "teachers" online that write out the assignments and explain things and answer any questions that the student has. They are graded on thier assignments, and have semester report cards that are posted privetly in your "home room" school room. One big differance between homeshchooling and a charter school is that when you have completed homeschool you get your GED, when you finish with a charter school you get a diploma.
Charter schools can go many ways, there are Christian charter schools and public charter schools. You just have to find one that suits you.
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