The charter school debate

Abstract

Everyone seems to have an opinion about charter schools, whether they know anything about them or not. And many don't: one study found that almost half of those surveyed did not even know that charter schools are public schools. President Obama has weighed in, supporting charter schools and urging increased funding for the charter school movement. Because there is substantial public money associated with charter schools, sometimes at the expense of traditional public schools and their unionized teachers, few states have been able to avoid pitched battles between those favoring charter schools and those against them.

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