Draft:Charter education

Charter education is a provision of tax-funded education that operates under private businesses. The authorization of such system is a contract known as a charter. As such, they are subject to less regulation than public schools, but are more accountable with the academic performance of their students. Furthermore, they do not charge tuition but can receive funds from other sources depending on whether the business is non-profit or for-profit.

Charter schools originally started progressive, as an offer of more school choice as an accessible, but independent system. However, in the early 2010s, its vision has been changed to better fit the narrative of an agenda of the Republican Party, especially when they started to promote a fear-mongering narrative that the left is taking over public education.

The results of this system have been from mixed to negative in academic performance and satisfaction as the charter schools lack advantages over the public and private sector of education. Institutions are closing regularly due to failures of keeping promises described in the charter for a few years. Despite such failures, charter contractors continue to push unrealistic promises and open new buildings as the enrollment rate in charter education continues to grow.

The promises
One of the major promises that charter education gives is an alternative to the disadvantage of low income and ethnic minorities.

Their real practices
A school undergoes charter education when they obtain a contract, known as a charter, that describes the background, mission, and objectives of the school. These charters typically last around 3-5 years. In that period, if they fail to meet certain achievements in the contract, the institution will be closed.

Selection entries
The most privileged children tend to perform the best in education, making them an asset for private corporations. As such, many charter schools tend to put out restrictive measures for selection that often exclude children who are either disadvantaged or who have special needs, giving a more homogeneous population of students that are white, heterosexual, and cisgender in the charter schools.

Incompetent staff
Like private schools, the regulations on teacher qualifications in charter schools are looser than public schools. Consequentially, the charter schools tend to hire newer teachers who are less experienced. In some cases, the schools might even fake the certifications for the teachers in contrast to their competence, but courts have stuck down this scheme. One closed charter school in Florida had a board member who had a felony charge.

The (inconclusive) results
A 2015 Stanford report found favorable changes with charter schools in urban areas. However, the charter schools still fail to meet sufficient accountability requirements to their local school district according to a 2017 report from SCRIBD in which they found a 50% association between openings and closures of charter institutions. The report also mentions how the funds robbed from public education is essentially continuing to be turned into dust due to the "mismanagement, poor academics, or competition" in charter schools.

Growth, death, and repeat
Charter schools continue to open and make unrealistic promises despite previous failures. Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos supported public funding and voucher programs of private schools in her home state of Michigan for a period of two decades. The Detroit Free Press found that the charter schools were not accountable for student performance nor were they accountable financially. During a 2018 interview on "60 Minutes", DeVos failed to dispute that the Michigan charter-school system did not improve student performance.