Charter school
this is just factually untrue. most charters operate under a lottery system so this needs to be reworded. deleting for now
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== Nature == |
== Nature == |
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Charter schools are publicly-funded schools that operate independently from their local district.{{Cite news |last=Prothero |first=Arianna |date=2018-08-09 |title=What Are Charter Schools? |url=https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/what-are-charter-schools/2018/08 |access-date=2024-02-14 |work=Education Week |language=en |issn=0277-4232}} Charter schools are often operated and maintained by a [[charter management organization]] (CMO). CMOs are typically non-profit organizations and provide centralized services for a group of charter schools. There are some for-profit [[education management organization]]s. Charter schools are held accountable by their authorizer. There is debate on whether charter schools should be described as [[private education|private schools]] or [[state school]]s.{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Emma |date=4 February 2015 |title=Are charter schools public or private? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/04/are-charter-schools-public-or-private/ |access-date=21 February 2018 |newspaper=Washington Post}} Advocates of the charter model argue that they are public schools because they |
Charter schools are publicly-funded schools that operate independently from their local district.{{Cite news |last=Prothero |first=Arianna |date=2018-08-09 |title=What Are Charter Schools? |url=https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/what-are-charter-schools/2018/08 |access-date=2024-02-14 |work=Education Week |language=en |issn=0277-4232}} Charter schools are often operated and maintained by a [[charter management organization]] (CMO). CMOs are typically non-profit organizations and provide centralized services for a group of charter schools. There are some for-profit [[education management organization]]s. Charter schools are held accountable by their authorizer. There is debate on whether charter schools should be described as [[private education|private schools]] or [[state school]]s.{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=Emma |date=4 February 2015 |title=Are charter schools public or private? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2015/02/04/are-charter-schools-public-or-private/ |access-date=21 February 2018 |newspaper=Washington Post}} Advocates of the charter model argue that they are public schools because they do not charge for tuition. Critics of charter schools assert that charter schools' private operation with a lack of public accountability makes them more like private institutions subsidized by the public.{{Cite news|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/08/when-public-goes-private-as-trump-wants-what-happens/|title=When Public Goes Private, as Trump Wants: What Happens?|last=Ravitch|first=Diane|date=2016-12-08|work=The New York Review of Books|access-date=2018-07-14|language=en|issn=0028-7504}} |
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