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Essay Review: Beyond the One Best System: Case-Studies of Charter Schoolsreviewed by Leonard J. Waks - 2003 Title: Essay Review: Beyond the One Best System: Case-Studies of Charter Schools Author(s): Bruce Fuller (Editor) Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge ISBN: 0674008235, Pages: 302, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com Charter schools are public schools in that they are supported by
public taxation and free from tuition, and accountable to the
public in terms stated in their charters, yet they are granted
waivers from some standard state and local rules and regulations.
They receive the full state per-student allocation, and can be
started and operated by parents, teachers, civic activists and
non-governmental organizations, school administrators, and/ or
universities. Establishment of such schools thus withdraws the
exclusive franchise for public schools from local school
districts.
Charter schools have won broad political support, and have
expanded rapidly. Before 1991 no charter schools existed. By 2000,
there were more than 2000 of them, serving more than 400,000
students in 37 states and the District of Columbia, and most had
long waiting lists. When combined with the more than 1.2 million
American children now being home schooled, up from a mere handful a
decade ago (Stevens, 2002), charter schools pose an incisive
challenge to the legitimacy of the “one best system”... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Leonard Waks
Temple University E-mail Author LEONARD J. WAKS is Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Temple University.
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