Opinion: Charter schools erode public education abpoli abgov abed
That’s because charter schools are governed by private boards of directors. Even though they are non-profit and cannot be religious in nature, charter boards are not subject to open elections so they do not democratically represent the local or broader communities.
A 2011 study by Scott Imberman found that charter schools actually have a negative effect on neighbouring public schools because they change the peer environments and reduce resources going to the public schools around them. In this way, “choice” for charter-accepted families actually translates into less “choice” for families attending the other neighbourhood school whose resources are being siphoned.
In reality, it is the fight for limited government funds that unfairly skews the advantage towards charters. Meanwhile, charters are renewed at the discretion of the minister alone without public oversight or critique while charter schools are granted considerable latitude to operate exclusionary programs for small batches of students with public dollars.
Even though the UCP rolled charters into the “public school” tent by changing the Education Act to improve the branding of charter schools, they remain a dangerous siphon of resources from the public system. Charter schools are hotbeds of privatization and they should be rolled back into the true public education system.
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