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The economic impact of Texas Charter Schools

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Introduction:

             Due to the declining quality of public education in Texas, state lawmakers passed a law in 1995. The new law allows the opening and implementation of charter schools. These new cards to encourage and support schools innovative teaching for a variety of learning styles, improve student performance, and offer choices in the public school system (Terry and Alexander 2008, 4). Before the new legislation, there was no chance of election in the public school system regarding the education of a child, and children attending school based on your zip code. This deficiency began to change when the first charter school in Texas opened in the fall of 1996.

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) reports that the "first generation" of cards consisted of 17 schools and had a total population of 2,412 students. Legislation initially limited open enrollment letters to 20 schools, however, lawmakers to increase the cap to 100 schools in 1997 and 215 schools in 2001 (History 2007, 1). Since 2007, Texas had one of the programs of the school's largest and most flexible of the Charter in the U.S. (Story, 2007, 1). Currently, Texas charter schools serve more than 113,000 students, an estimated two percent of all public schools students. Moreover, from 113,000 students charter schools, 80 percent are minority students and 60 percent are economically disadvantaged (Terry and Alexander 2008, 7).

Analysis research-lifting the cap:

 The State of Texas currently has 210 active schools. open enrollment charter also Texas will likely reach the limit of 215 open-enrollment charter schools in 2009. If the lid is held in place, many parents and children will be disadvantaged, can not choose the best quality education for their families. Many supporters of charter education have and will continue to press for greater parental control and increased accountability with emphasis on improving public relations. However, these supporters to find much resistance, because opponents see charter schools as competition public schools.  Therefore, increased restrictions and mandates stifle growth of the charter school.

 The Texas government and the scope education policy review of statistical findings and assess the impact of open enrollment charter schools in Texas, will meet a clear picture of the positive outcomes of charter schools offer. It is evident by examining the economic and social aspects of charter schools open registration that lifting the limit on the number of open enrollment charter schools in Texas would benefit from the current public school System.

           Contrary to common public perception, charter schools are schools. similar to public schools, charter schools can not charge fees according to state law. However, "Charter schools have a significant amount autonomy and are free to be innovative in educational and administrative practices, "as stated in the Resource Center for Charter Schools (Technology Help for Administrators, 2008).  Before a charter school breaks ground in Texas, the entity must submit a proposal, similar to a proposal business, for approval, which typically includes a mission statement, a philosophy and a vision. The proposal also provides information on the basic logistics, including class size, the number of school days and hours, programs that service students and a budget projected. In many cases, charter schools seek help from outside agencies to provide guidance, classroom modeling, internal training, and resources for assist in achieving the mission. For example, an open-enrollment charter school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania uses a program based on research / agency in San Francisco, California, called the Development Studies Center (DSC). The DSC teacher training, provided funding and supported underway to achieve the school mission and goal. In fact, the foundations of the school's philosophy in a democratic framework that gives students a voice that promotes and fosters academic growth, social and emotional development of students. Significantly, this school recognizes the existence of multiple intelligences and different learning styles. A program that addresses the choice of students and multiple intelligences is the choice of electives for all of the student population once a week. It has also incorporated a "service learning program" to help delegates molding of the community (Service Learning Programs, 2008).

Similarly, in Houston, Texas, "KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program) Academy in Houston, whose mission is" ... to help students develop academic skills, intellectual habits and character qualities necessary for success in high school, college and the competitive world is a charter school "very successful services from grades 5-8 (U.S. Department of Education, 2008). Texas A recognized as an "exemplary school" every year since 1996, and the U.S. Department of Education recognized as a "school" Blue Ribbon ". The dedication of their teachers and administrators, including on-call via cell phone 24 / 7 to meet the academic needs of students led to this successful school "charter" (U.S. Department of Education, 2008). Dedication to this innovative not something conducive to the public school sector. view employees that integrate public schools, are subject to collective bargaining and union contracts have put hours and specific responsibilities in their contracts and do not depart from them.

By using the flexibility of the program charter and working outside the traditional eight hours of instructional time for students, the American Youth Works in Austin, Texas is a public charter school that is able to concentrate better on the specific needs of their students. The school allows students half-day to seek employment opportunities, to participate in programs of study or work to care for family members, including their own children students. The school requires students to meet with only four hours of teaching time to accommodate traditional life experience of the individual (and Terry Alexander 2008, 4).

Another charter school may extend the school day to improve academic performance or extend the school year to expose additional material and students to enhance learning. Equally important, a mission to meet the different learning styles through the theory of multiple intelligences can be the target of another charter school. There are even charter schools that focus on the arts, architecture and design, leadership and literacy. Charter schools generally do not fit the traditional model of public education generally but to find ways to educate children and encourage learning based on innovative ideas and strategies.

When a card is running, the entity will receive funding Direct state and federal government. However, the letters do not receive funding from their facilities, which corresponds to the charter school to raise funds, solicit donations, apply for grants federal home or choose to borrow from private lenders (Terry and Alexander 2008, 5).

States Terry, in an article in Go San Angelo ", which charter schools can not charge tuition, teach religion, discriminate, or keep the best students (Terry 2008, 1). To elaborate, if a charter school families to volunteer 20 hours of their time to assist various needs of the school, such as painting, helping in the classroom, making bundles, cleaning, etc. The school can not in any way to enforce this as a "requirement". If a family is penalized in any way, as a student being withdrawn from school for incomplete hours would be considered as payment for education. Moreover, the Charter schools can not discriminate in enrollment of students or cherry pick, select a student based on academic performance, conduct, or preferential selection, your income ..

Charter schools require different regulations compared to traditional public schools (Terry and Alexander 2008, 5). One example is that charter schools rather than integrate public schools require teachers to provide parents and guardians of students in your school with a written notice of their qualifications. Another example of differences in the regulation is under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Federal Regulation Part 300, that reopening the Persons with Disabilities Act Education Improvement Act (IDEA). Originally, the law requires charter schools to provide and complete academic testing for a child within 60 school days from the date of the request of a parent or guardian, while public schools Traditional required to provide and complete the same within 60 calendar days. under reauthorization, the requirement to change to 60 days of classes, both for public schools and charter. Before it became universal, for both general public and charter schools, which was a disadvantage for charter schools to join at the time of retention, because it was more difficult in terms of the high cost of academic testing and limited funds.

To be sure, the surrender accountability is universal for the public school district and charter schools, as the pressure of the No Child Left Behind impacts in both sectors of education. Both are required to administer standardized tests, and all students should review their current grade level rather than their skill level. For example, a student eighth graders who are reading at a third grade level must have the eighth-grade reading standardized tests.

According to the article "Charter Schools Texas: an evaluation in 2005, produced by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, "where student performance is evaluated on the basis of the results of testing, students in Texas charter schools take place as average students in traditional public schools. However, when changes in scores test used to judge performance, the academic gains of charter school students can demonstrate "(Patterson 2005, 5). This means that even if the results that some charter school students "do not exceed the performance of traditional public schools according to results standardized test, students are individually making better academic achievement in charter schools. Moreover, because most charter schools normally specialize in helping disadvantaged youth, many students in charter schools and identify population at risk of dropping out of school and come low-income households that could hinder their test performance (Terry and Alexander 2008, 5). Therefore, successful decisions based on the results of standardized tests is an unfair performance evaluation Charter School.

Currently, the government imposes some regulation on charter schools, forcing them to close if they have two consecutive years of undesirable results, which usually measures standardized test scores. This is the hardest and uneven compared five years allowed the mainstream public school districts (Terry and Alexander 2008, 5). For example, a charter school can be capable of improving a fifth grader whose reading level is equivalent to the third degree, but not yet with the performance unacceptable, since the fifth grade student Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) reading test section (Terry and Alexander 2008, 1).

During the 2007-2008 school year, 113,760 students enrolled in charter schools in Texas, and an estimated 16,810 students were on the waiting list (Terry and Alexander 2008, 4). Houston charter school regional waiting list was greatest in 7415 students coming in second was the Dallas / Fort Worth area in 5896 students and 2110 Rio Grand Valley had students. addition, Austin region had a waiting list of 623 and the region of Corpus Christi had a waiting list of 159, and the San Antonio area had a waiting list of 488 students (Terry and Alexander 2008, 4). According to Robel, as these numbers come from a survey in which only half of the schools participated, the real number of students on waiting lists for charter schools in Texas is more likely (Robel 2008, 1).

The large number of students on waiting lists for enrollment Charter School demonstrates the strong demand for school choice, which is the fundamental purpose of the legislation for charter schools. The growing number of students in waiting lists shows the need for lawmakers to lift the cap to limit the number of charter schools in Texas. When a school has more applicants that can allow a lottery determines enrollment where students attend school the next year. Terry asks readers to "imagine the parents whose children are trapped in poorly performing public school, crying for joy that your child is randomly selected to attend a school with a history of serving at-risk students with innovative strategies "(Terry 2008, 1). On the other hand, one can imagine the cries of a father whose son is a student in public school low performance when your child loses registration lottery.Â

There are four different types of charter schools: registration open letters, letters of district, university cards, and letters home rule district. Open enrollment charter schools serving the largest population, 89,156 students, the year 2007-2008. The open enrollment cards are by definition independent of the units of the school and may have several campuses. The school district operates charter schools district consisting of 23,275 students in the 2007-2008 school year. Letters from the University in general are at work in the university or college senior public and consisted of 1,329 students attending 19 different universities, charter schools in 2007-2008. In addition, a home-rule charter means districts have the capacity condition to convert into charter school that includes a broad voting process. No limit on the number of letters from district, however, no house charter school State operating in Texas (Terry and Alexander 2008, 3).

The open enrollment charter schools do not drain financial resources from public schools integrate because they do not receive state funding. In fact, the excess money in the state education budget is applied to the district the student's home and the nearby school where the child resides. For example, in the 2005-2006 school year, the cost per student in Texas was $ 9,629, charter schools received approximately $ 1,500 less per student (Terry and Alexander, 2008a, 1). Thus, operating a charter school district keeps the money in a child's education because schools charter spend less money per child.

Because charter schools receive less money per student compared to school districts in Texas in general, need to charter schools to incorporate fundraising into their fiscal plans. Moreover, the fund-raising letter from the school brings more dollars sector. public in accordance with the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in Illinois, the total public and private funding for charter schools brought a total of $ 11 million to help educate youth. In addition, charter schools, introduce new resources into public education. Subsidies designed to fund phases as charter schools, planning, development and initial implementation, which are not available for the school system public if there were no charter schools (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2008).

It is wrong for the districts in Texas to believe that schools charter a negative impact on its results or curtail its budget plan. For opening a new charter school, the State provides the district with financial support short term to avoid an impact on school district revenues (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2008). Because charter schools often enroll a student body diverse, with a variety of features, the fiscal impact is a factor of tuition only (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2008). Moreover, the public and charter schools receive a percentage of money for students with disabilities, therefore, the district office receives an even greater amount than the $ 1,500 per student. Finally special education, socioeconomic factors determine the funding for students and the services offered (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2008).

Districts can easily be adapted to cut the cost to charter schools. The National Alliance for Charter Schools, reports that school districts can often adapt to fluctuations in student enrollment, which may have some key adjustments in the first year, subsequent years have little or no impact on the school district (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2008). Â Â The National Alliance for Charter Schools also believes that if a school is thriving, and the district can not adapt to the fluctuation in enrollment, probably because of the district's own policies and rules not (Alliance National Public Charter Schools 2008).

Charter schools in Texas to increase employment of teachers in the district as well. Many teachers struggle to obtain a teaching post once they graduate and charter schools to open doors for many of these teachers qualified to find work in education. The state law requires only that teachers be state certified to work in a charter school if they specialize in special education or education Bilingual (Terry and Alexander 2008a, 6). The state government in Texas does not require charter schools to hire certified teachers, but many choose to do so, especially the shortage of teaching opportunities. History supports this by stating that statistics show charter schools employ 26 percent of new teachers in the field compared with traditional public schools, employing only 7 per cent, respectively (History 2007, 3). In addition, charter schools can impact the district traditional school in a positive way, reducing the need for districts to hire new teachers by eliminating overcrowding, reducing the average cost of recruitment and training a new teacher, estimated at about $ 8,000 per teacher (National Alliance of Charter Schools 2008). Â

The impact of charter schools in community economic and social growth is increasing rapidly. As stated earlier, charter schools receive no funding for facilities State, however, districts receiving letters from schools and surplus of approximately $ 1,500 per student attending a charter school. Â So, without funding of a facility, charter schools, renovate, remodel and / or rehabilitate existing property within a community, in order to accommodate students. Having a charter school residing in a neighborhood has the potential to generate revenues and increase the value of property (National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2008).

The Alliance Public Charter Schools National also suggests that if charter schools are succeeding in educating students, may reduce the dropout rate in secondary schools and college admissions and increased graduates. Texas seems to have a dropout rate, and graduate students who have no communication and math skills necessary for college and require remedial math and reading programs to qualify for admission to college (Terry and Alexander 2008, 4). One of the most successful schools in Texas is a charter school, which drastically reduced their dropout rates, under the direction of the mission of its charter.

A These charter schools often provide a safe haven for youth, providing mentoring and aftercare. Importantly, charter schools often give communities a sense of pride. Many charter schools offer the Boy Scouts of America, sports, and other programs in order to facilitate teamwork, self esteem and help foster a sense of community, and growth in a child. Some charter schools open their doors for tutoring and guidance on Saturdays to provide additional assistance and a safe environment for youth. However, these programs are rare in the district traditional public schools are set mainly by the contract and collective bargaining processes in the districts. Charter schools have the ability to add students extra touch of impact, without the political constraints faced by traditional district schools.

           While charter schools do not appear to pose a significant threat to the financial operations of public schools in Texas, there are risks associated with the existence of the charter schools. Because most charter schools operate as a business, there is a risk of misappropriation and the allocation misdirection of funds. Moreover, the misconduct of administrators, teachers and institutions involved in a particular school, could lead to a negative perception of the aided schools as a whole. However, limiting the number of charter schools on the basis of isolated incidents of illegal activity, inappropriate behavior or misuse of power could be detrimental to the educational system. The bad behavior can develop in any entity, including public school districts.

           Research shows that students in traditional public schools who attend charter schools for a period of two or three years to improve more quickly than students in traditional public school district (Terry and Alexander 2008, 5). Do not use a growth-based system to measure the amount of growth, a student can obtain in the course of a year in the accountability system is the cause of the state school charter that seem deficient (Terry and Alexander 2008, 5). Research on Charter Schools of Texas: an assessment in 2005, produced by the Public Policy Foundation of Texas, shows that students who left traditional public schools to attend charter schools better on average they would if they were still attending traditional public schools (Patterson 2004, 32). Thus, the correlation of charter schools and achievement students is important, and students will benefit from the elimination of the limits of the charter school in Texas.

           Charter schools competition with the main schools in the district that provides a desired positive impact on district schools. It requires schools in the district to show more accountability of staff and teachers and pressured them to increase student performance. If schools are operating at low levels, parents or guardians will feel the need to withdraw your child in the school district through the implementation of a charter school. If lawmakers remove the lid and there are more choices for parents and carers, more options for education accessible to students and parents. In addition, competition between charter schools and public schools will cause school districts to increase their overall academic performance.

           Patterson maintains baseline for charter schools in Texas as follows:

Charter schools are a valuable alternative traditional public schools (Patterson 2005, 1).

Letters are especially effective with disadvantaged students (Patterson 2005, 1).

Letters challenge traditional public schools to improve student performance (Patterson 2005, 1).

Letters to better work with students secondary and alternative education programs (Patterson 2005, 1).

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Conclusion:

Benefits A school can provide to public schools in the district, parents, students and community significantly outweighs any negative impact of the letters may cause. The Texas Legislature should eliminate the cap of 215 charter schools that prevents charter schools to operate in a free market (Terry and Alexander, 2008, 1). The 16,810 or more students on waiting lists for charter schools test demand for charter schools. This demand, viewed in light of the current problems facing public traditional schools shows that charter schools are working well in improving the quality of education. Many analysts believe that quality education of education charter school will increase overtime. Unless this demand meets supply, tens of thousands of students will remain in an environment that can promote academic growth, emotional or social. Equally important, these students do not thrive in its current location and could pull back to the point of becoming at risk youth who could leave high school, leading to a bleak future. This reform proposal would lift the lid be a huge opportunity for Texas to become a leader in the charter school movement. The public school system in Texas could stop raising taxes real estate to invest money in failing districts and make the decision to provide more educational resources for children in the state.

           that Bureaucracy is a barrier to student learning and student performance is unthinkable. A simple solution to the crisis facing Texas education would lift the lid, while continuing to monitor all educational institutions. It is in the best interest the child for parents and guardians to make the choice of where your child must attend school to get the best free appropriate public education possible. The main purpose of the law of the charter school in 1995 was to give that option to the citizens of Texas. That freedom does not exist for thousands of citizens in Texas because of the CAP in charter schools. Given the overwhelming evidence that charter schools are socio-economically beneficial, Texas lawmakers should increase or remove cover completely and make charter schools available to all its citizens in 2009.

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Education
• PhD in Public Administration – University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, TX) (In progress)
• M.B.A in Management – Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
• B.S. in Business Administration, honors – Georgia College (Milledgeville, GA)

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I have a BS and an MBA, both emphasizing human resources. I am currently pursuing a PhD in Public Affairs. I am certified as a Professional in Human Resources, and in the SAP Human Resource software solutions. I have worked on twelve plus system implementations. My project experience includes project management, and HR consulting in all HR subject areas. My work experience is highly concentrated in practical human resources in several industries, including healthcare, oil & gas, utilities as well as public sector.

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