Argumentative Essay: Benefits Of Charter Schools

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“It's time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy, a bureaucratic system in which everybody's role is spelled out in advance and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's no surprise that our school system doesn't improve; it more resembles the communist economy than our own market economy” says Albert Shanker. Charter school legislation was passed in 1991 to have more educational options. Charter schools were created because teachers wanted to create small educational opportunities for children living in poverty, children of color, and immigrants so that they could be well educated and succeed academically. Charter schools provide the kind of motivation that will help students overcome obstacles. There are sufficient resources that allow students to reach their goals. In 1999, thirty states including the District of Columbia passed the charter school legislation. Yet, some people still did not understand the meaning of a charter school. For over a century, educational reforms have tried to make schools more efficient. In the 1980s, Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, organized a public school, found a building, and hired teachers, founding the first public charter. His goal was to “recruit well-qualified teachers, improve difficult schools, reduce class size…show more content…
Gray, author of the School Choice and Achievement, say that "without advanced mathematics in high school are unlikely to succeed in the hard sciences and engineering." Therefore, students in the United States are likely to be at risk of losing labor markets. over the last two decades researchers and advocates have debated the benefits and shortages of school choice. There have been many concerns that local parents and communities have been absent from being involved in the public schools. Evidence shows that families of charter school students are more satisfied with charter schools than the traditional public

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