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The Pros And Cons Of Public Charter Schools

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Public charter schools are emerging as one of the top educational choices for many students and parents for many reasons. Charter schools are public schools that function under contracts between the school and an authorizing agency in order to give the school more freedom on their “educational objectives” (NCSRC). Public charter schools have become available in the past twenty years, but they only started to thrive in the past decade due to the growing dissatisfaction towards traditional public schools (Gawlik). The first charter school was established in 1991 in Minnesota, and now there are over 6000 public charter schools around the nation (Silvernail 1). The increasing number of available charter schools has not only given students and parents
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