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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Schools at Charters Towers were not ordered closed and many reported record attendances due to the number of children from coastal areas being sent to western towns.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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Charter schools vary in their relationships to their sponsoring school boards with some sites having little or no contact with the board once the charter contract is approved.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Charter schools are funded by two sources: Foundation School Program funds distributed directly from the state, and local funds paid in the form of tuition by the school district in which a student attending the school resides.
Charter schools may opt to develop their own promotion/retention requirements or adopt local district procedures.
Charter Schools Lease Financing is available for charter school facilities and equipment at attractive rates so that funds from grants are not tied up in buildings.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Charter schools must be non-sectarian and cannot discriminate in any way.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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New charter schools must develop themselves as active learning communities yet constrain their aspirations for curriculum development.
Charter schools in Texas are told that they must require students to take a student achievement test to assess student learning.
Many charter schools were founded with the idea that new models for curriculum are required.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Pennsylvania charter schools are freed from burdensome mandates that limit the existing public school system from overhauling the educational system.
Schools that are conditionally approved by the Charter School Review Panel are not counted against the numerical limits placed on the Sponsor.
Charter schools serve a significantly higher proportion of economically disadvantaged students compared to all public schools.
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