Charter Schools

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@Stormieweather: The "Results section" (p33) is restricted to differences in County-wide GPA's,
but even so the "Speculation section" (p34-38) is quite interesting.

Perception appears to be the major proponent for charter schools.
“The act of choice alone (ability to choose whether to attend
a school or not) may be one of the major reasons for increased satisfaction in charter schools”

Unfortunately, the way charter schools have been sold to the state legislatures
is primarily on the hope/promise that they will achieve better results
than the public schools.

@ Clod: If your friend that running the charter school in Texas
is not receiving funding equal to that provided by law,
she should seek advise of an attorney. It is quite explicit what Texas law
provides to open enrollment charter schools:

In addition to the full formula amount of state Foundation School Program (FSP)
funds per student, an open-enrollment charter school is also
entitled to receive an allotment for the transportation
of its eligible students in authorized motor vehicles (i.e., compliant school buses,
passenger cars, or public mass transit authority/MTA motor buses)
to and from their campus(es) of regular attendance based on the same allotment per mile
funding rate assigned to the conventional/traditional public school district(s) in which its students reside.