“Charter schools bring benefits to other public schools”
Yes, you read that right. Charter schools continue to show benefits to other PUBLIC schools as well as to students attending the charter schools themselves.
Okay, so we have said it before that choice benefits public schools, too, but some people still question that for some reason.
In this column for the Herald Tribune, J. Stanley Marshall, the vice chairman and founding chairman of The James Madison Institute and a former president of Florida State University, comments on how charter schools in Florida are showing huge gains and benefitting all students.
Since 1996, when the movement began with Florida’s first charter school legislation, public charter schools have helped to improve the state’s public schools. With the support of parents seeking alternatives to traditional public education and educators seeking greater flexibility and creativity, charter schools offer unique and innovative educational options that are otherwise unavailable. And the number of charter schools continues to expand at an impressive rate. In less than 12 years, Florida’s charter school community has burgeoned from just five schools to over 350 schools that serve more than 100,000 students.
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