Charter Schools Advantages

Charter schools are a very unique kind of school. Any student can attend as long as they apply and are accepted. Unlike regular traditional public schools, they have the sole responsibility for each student to provide results that they are learning at their grade level or their school will be shut down. Essentially they don’t have bureaucratic rules, so they are free and not restricted by the many restrictions that public schools have to deal with. It technically is a public school that runs independently but allowed elasticity in how it operates. Charter schools are controlled by the local community, which usually includes the teachers and parents. While in charter schools, they allow parents or community groups to reconfigure the public

Charter schools offer students more creative steps to learning while giving parents and families more choices in what they want. In states with charter laws, students have the option to attend school where ever they deemed fit for them, there is no district zone restrictions to follow by, as long as they are accepted by the administration of the school. Which means a student is not stuck in a district zone school where the school is only subpar to schools elsewhere. They allow students from any district a chance to enroll, but not everyone gets in because of the limited amount of seats each school has. Since charter schools are allowed more elasticity, they can develop new methods and new ideas. Effective school leadership, which includes instructional leadership, team goal-setting and distributed leadership, is one of the most important factors influencing teacher behavior and student outcomes (Wei, Patel, and Young 5). So the teachers are free to try different ways of thinking outside the box to help students learn and surpass other public school students. Most charter schools classes are small in size where they know and care about each

They can actually do better at educating poor students from low income families. Some low income students tend to do worst than other students academically. There is a group called The Houston YES Prep Public Schools, which is made up of ten public charter schools, works mainly with students from low income families. Teachers give special attention to students that are struggling and works with them so the students don’t have a chance to fall behind. Charter schools helped English language learners and poverty students achieve more than traditional public school. Educators at these charter schools can work effectively on educating English language learners because of the autonomy given to the educators. While English is mainly taught at the public school system, most teachers at charter schools have the capability to teach with multiple languages. Among charter schools adding new campuses, the percentage of incoming students whose first language is not English shot up from just under 30 percent two years ago to 55 percent in 2013 (Peyser). The English language learners are continually growing in the United States by leaps and bounds making them a good percentage in charter schools. With the population growth there needs to be a huge emphasis on improving learning for these English language learners. They are students that require lots of support from teachers and these charters schools are, in my opinion capable to provide the