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The Pros And Cons Of Charter Schools

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A charter school is one that is established by charter and run by teachers, parents, and other members of the community. It uses tax money but does not have to run in adherence to the rules of a particular district, city, or state (Merriam-Webster). Recently, many states have initiated programs to create privately funded charter schools as an alternative to public education. This has created many positives and negatives amongst the educational stakeholders. Parents and students are left debating over whether to leave traditional educational options behind and become a part of the new educational trend of charter schools. However, charter schools have many encouraging aspects for students excel their potential.
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President Obama has promoted charter schools as a way to give advantages to a disadvantaged population in the Rtt program, but the programs seem to have given way to separateness for students of color. All cities and towns have an economic segregating mechanism earthier property values, or location. In some urban areas segregation is used in the admission process. Parents are ushered to a lengthy presentation of how tough this will be with longer hours and intense parental involvement. Many parents of lower economic levels are unable to commit to such schedules and still be able to provide for their families (Knaak, & Knaak, 2012). They are forced to make other choices. Many students that transfer from traditional public schools to more segregated charter schools have shown to gain a disadvantage in achievement not only in test scores but also in ways that promote lower standards of living not upward mobility (Frankenberg, Sigel-Hawley & Wang, 2011). Education is about tolerance, and working with all people regardless of ethnicity, race, or economic

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The video “Tale of Two Schools: Race and Education on Long Island” presents David and Owen, two African-American students with similar backgrounds and grades who attend two different high schools in separate districts that have drastically different access to resources, community support, income, etc. Wyandanch Memorial High School is located in a poor district, while South Side High School is located in Rockville Center which is a more affluent and diverse district. The effects of the districts having varying levels of access to quality resources and diversity is exemplified throughout the video with regards to the way the students interact with each other, their grades, and their careers after high school. The lack of resources of Wyandanch

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Furthermore, the unequal distribution of resources and opportunities for certain groups of students. This article supports the acknowledgement of New York City’s segregated school system, as well as the social and economic factors that contribute to it, to better ensure that New York City’s neediest children gain access to quality

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Where children are being denied the opportunity of having an equal education. “Families claimed that extreme racial and class segregation in schools enabled and sustained by state-enforced school district boundary lines denied them the equal educational opportunity guaranteed by Connecticut’s constitutions” (Eaton, 2007; 35-36). However, why are districts doing this to children? Especially when they tend to have good academic achievements.

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Still Separate, Still Unequal by Jonathan Kozol I found this article to be very interesting and extremely heartbreaking. Jonathan Kozol paints a vivid and grim picture of predominantly black or Hispanic schools in and around some the largest cities in America. Even in areas where the distribution of races is somewhat equal, Kozol tells us that most white families would rather send their kids by bus to a school where more than half of the students are white. Some schools, like Martin Luther King Jr. high school in New York City, are located purposefully in upper middle class white neighborhoods in hopes to draw in a more diverse selection of children, i.e. more white kids. It seems however, according to Kozol, that this plan not only did not work, but has made it a prime and obvious example of modern segregation in our schools.

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Growing away from the interests of teacher unions started with the first charter school in Minnesota. Minnesota’s charter law failed to include universal teacher certification requirements and automatic collective bargaining rights for teachers. It also failed to prevent the creation of charter schools that targeted particular ethnic and racial minority groups, therefore many charter schools were founded that aimed at a particular group such as Somali students (p.14). Furthermore, Democratic President Clinton supported the charter school movement, thus a lot of federal money was spent on founding new ones.

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Decades of public policy and private action have systematically excluded people of color—especially black people—from good neighborhoods, jobs, and wealth-building opportunities. Among the many consequences for children of color is that they disproportionately attend high-poverty public schools. High-poverty schools tend to lack the educational resources—like highly qualified and experienced teachers, low student-teacher ratios, college prerequisite and advanced placement courses, and extracurricular activities—available in low-poverty schools. As a result, high-poverty schools are tasked with a tremendous load and are often unable to provide either the quality of education or the additional resources and supports needed to help students in low-income families succeed (Jordan,

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After reading chapter 26 I learned that charter schools should collaborate with public schools to support better education for students. Charters schools enroll a small number of English Learners and students with disabilities, in order for the parents to believe that those are better schools. Charters schools take funding from public schools because parents transfer their children to charter schools. Charters schools also suspend and kick out students who they believe will not help the school get high test scores and thus, not get money. Charter schools treat their students as a business, a way for them to make money and they discriminate those students who they believe won’t make them money.

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Although schools of over a thousand students have flourished in America, when it comes to poorer neighborhoods, scores are profoundly low. I believe that despite the fact that my parents do not have enough money to send me to an opulent school with favorable circumstances, I should still have equal education opportunities. As history shows, It seems that the public school system is having the same problems that manifested themselves decades ago. We are slowly, but surely, returning to segregated schools where the better schools and the better educational opportunities are in suburbia, and the better schools are being attended by mainly white students, while urban schools are being attended by minority students.

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“Though charter schools have yet to prove their academic worth, they are rapidly increasing in number across the country. They provide choices to parents for their children's education and level the playing field between higher and lower Socioeconomic classes (Wood

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In an August 30, 2016, article by author Arianna Prothero, and published by Education Week. Leaders in black communities around the nation called for fewer charter schools in their neighborhoods. The root of their argument is, “Black families and communities are losing control of their public schools.” (Prothero). Although the original intent of these charter schools was to give control of the schools to the parents and the community leaders many of these community leaders feel they only hurt students of the charter school themselves and the surrounding public school in their community.

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