The idea of charter schools began in 1970, where it was simply a way for teachers to create new innovative teaching techniques in exchange for some compensation. The release of the 1983 government report, titled “A Nation at Risk” forced Americans to think of new ways in which to fix our education problems. Thus the charter school was born. Charter schools were a new mix of public and private schools, in that they had the autonomy and innovation of private schools but the price and government mandated education standards of public schools. These advantages are why charter schools are a step in the right direction. [Innovation] Charter schools are privately created therefore, they don’t need to follow the same rules and regulations of public schools. This lack of overreaching oversight leads to the development of new innovative techniques to improve the quality of education. One such technique used was the increase of teachers’ salaries at Unity Prep in New York. The School has increased the starting payoff teachers to 125k by removing unnecessary administration positions. After this potentially …show more content…
The problem with this argument is that students in charter schools don’t always need to learn more than students in public schools. The reason being … cost, if the charter school provides a group of students with the same quality education as a public school does the same amount of student the public school is clearly superior. Why? Based on reports by Rand Research charters receive less funding than traditional public schools, this can be up to $600 per pupil in some cases. And yet, charter school students constantly meet or exceed educational standards, based on a study conducted by Credo at Stanford found that students enrolled in Boston Charter schools learned on average one and half months more in reading and two and half months in