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schools are public schools in every sense of the word.
- Charter schools specifically are intended to stimulate
innovation and accountability within the framework
of public education.
- Pennsylvania charter schools are freed from burdensome
mandates that limit the existing public school system
from overhauling the educational system.
- Charter schools can not discriminate in the admissions,
hiring, and/or evaluation processes.
- Charter schools offer a tuition free choice in
public education; they are financed the same way as
traditional public schools. Per pupil funding follows
the child.
- Charter schools may not choose or assign children;
children are selected by an impartial lottery process.
Charter schools must be non-sectarian and cannot discriminate
in any way.
- Without dramatic restructuring of the current bureaucratic
framework, no internal catalyst can produce meaningful
and lasting reform.
- Charter schools offer unique opportunities within
the public school system because they depend upon
innovation to attract children.
- Charter schools are driven by parental choice.
- Charter schools replace the bureaucratic culture
of the present school system with an entrepreneurial
model, built around empowered school principals, professionals
and parental choice.
- Charter schools must operate openly, under strict
adherence to the Sunshine Act.
- children attending a Pennsylvania charter school
are required to participate in state testing. The
results are used as part of the accountability process
for charter schools.
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