Charter Schools Case Study

Problem Charter schools are rich in history and the progressive trends have been well documented through the various stages. Strong charter school proposals were started by Ray Budde, an educator and school district consultant, in the 1970’s. Even though there had been earlier reports of chartering schools before this, they were not taken seriously. Colleagues and friends were not interested in Buddes’ “Education by Charter: Key to a New Model of School Districts”. Because of the stifled progression of charter schools, Budde decided to put his ideas of chartering schools away for the time being. In the 1970’s there was more research and many studies were done on how to improve the educational system. Budde tried again and published “Education

In 1991 the state passed the first charter school law. The first charter school in the United States began in St. Paul, Minnesota. The City Academy started on September 7th. 1992. Pennsylvania had tried the concept of chartering in existing public schools in the late 1980’s. By the end of 1992 California had started new charter schools. Nineteen states had passed charter school laws by 1995, and by 2009 there were forty-one states that had enacted similar laws. These new charter schools focused on certain areas of study, such as math and science. Some were structured to meet the needs of troubled students, teen parents, or the disabled. Charter schools seemed to be the alternative choice for assorted reasons. (Bohte, J.

In 1955, Milton Friedman proposed a different approach to funding and federal government involvement in K-12 public schools. He suggested that tuition vouchers be given to parents so that they could use them to pay for private education for their children. He theorized three reasons why this might fail and why it would require greater involvement of government. Monopolies of educational choice, neighborhood effects, and no free exchange of academic information were his biggest concerns. Friedman’s proposal began the reform of privatizing the public school system. His initial plan included the government’s use of tax dollars to pay for public schools. He next considered whether it was mandatory that the federal government had control of public education. He proposed that the government could fund educational programs while having the option to intervene only when faced with any of the three main concerns he had: monopolies, effects and information sharing (Laitsch, D., 2016). Voucher programs stemming from this proposal have been in place in the United States more than twenty years now. Friedman’s reform was re-energized in 2015 because of the Republican shift of control in Congress. November 8, 2016, also brought many more changes to education reform. Donald Trump became President of the United States and declared