A '''charter school''' is a publicly-financed school free of the [[liberal]] teachers' unions and exempt from many of the usual requirements imposed by the state board of education. This exemption is permitted in return for a promise to deliver higher student achievement, as set out in the school's charter.<ref>Charter schools promise to improve student achievement as a condition of relief from some of the rules and regulations that apply to traditional public schools ... [ NEA]</ref> In the event a charter school does not meet certain performance or other standards, unlike a public school it can be closed.<ref>[http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_3_a2.html]</ref>
* Public As of 2020, there are 3 million [[America]]n children in charter schools, now legal in 21 states, receive varying degrees of relief from constricting regulations and teacher contract rules. The group holding the charter—it may be a consortium of parents another million who are on waiting lists or a university or a non-profit organization—is accountable for the school’s performance: if a school fails, it can be closedotherwise trying to get into charter schools. [http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_3_a2.html]
* [[Minnesota]] enacted The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools lists the first charter-school legislation 16 years ago. [[California]] has more ten best states for charter schools than any other stateas being Minnesota, Florida, Massachusetts, Colorado, New York, California, Georgia, D.C., Louisiana and Utah.
Typically parents and educators organize a Unlike private, parochial, or Christian schools, charter school schools must (subject to overcome inefficiencies and/or illogical requirements that retard educationspace availability) accept students regardless of religious view, such as [[social promotion]] educational ability (and union-mandated raises which are unrelated to teacher effectiveness , in fact, many charter schools specialize in teaching students with learning challenges), or prior disciplinary problems (see [[merit pay]]except for the most serious cases).
* In public schools Most states require that teachers almost automatically get [[tenure]] — a lifetime job guarantee — after three yearsin charter schools be certified. [<ref>http://wwwecs.city-journalforce.orgcom/htmlmbdata/6_3_a2.html]mbquestNB2?rep=CS1425</ref>
The [[NEA]] opposes charter schools, which typically hire teachers who are not organized in a union such as NEA. In addition, public school teachers almost automatically get [[tenure]] — a lifetime job guarantee — after a short period of time, typically three years.<ref>[http://www.city-journal.org/html/6_3_a2.html]</ref>
Charter schools are organized to overcome inefficiencies and/or illogical requirements that retard education, such as [[social promotion]] and union-mandated raises which are unrelated to teacher effectiveness (see [[merit pay]]). Though parents may charter a school, most of them are operated by either non-profit groups, or for-profit corporations such as [[Responsive Ed]] out of [[Lewisville, Texas]]. Sadly, some charter schools are not started for educational purposes: NFL Hall of Famer [[Deion Sanders]] opened a school in Texas—Prime Prep, the name of which comes from his "Prime Time" nickname—which was later closed as it was little more than a sports academy masquerading as a school, with virtually no financial or other accountability.
== Cities with highest enrollment ==
By percentage, the cities with the highest enrollment in charter schools are:<ref>https://data.publiccharters.org/digest/charter-school-data-digest/where-are-charter-schools-located/</ref>
*[[New Orleans]] (99%)
*Woodland Hills, [[California]] (94%)
*Doral, [[Florida]] (56%)
*Carmichael, California (55%)
*Pembroke Pines, Florida (54%)
== Charter schools by State ==
* As of 2010, charter schools are legal in 40 states plus [[D.C.]], only the following states did not allow any charter schools: Alabama, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia.
* [[Minnesota]] enacted the first charter-school legislation, in 1991.<ref>https://ballotpedia.org/Charter_schools_in_Illinois</ref>
*[[California]] has more charter schools than any other state.
*[[Illinois]] has 52 charter schools (as of 2011-20122011–2012), mostly in [[Chicago]].<ref>http://www.isbe.state.il.us/charter/pdf/schools_count.pdf Illinois law caps the number of its charter schools at 75 in Chicago and 45 outside of Chicago (currently there are 38 in Chicago and only 14 outside of Chicago).</ref> The requirements for establishing a charter school in Illinois are as follows:<ref>http://incschools.org/start_a_charter/charter_school_law_and_requirements/</ref>
:*approval of the design plan by the local school board (or, if denied, approval by the State Board of Education on appeal)
:*negotiated funding from school district of 75%-125% of its funding per capita.
*[[Missouri]] allows charter schools in the St. Louis City (where there are bout about 20) and Kansas City areas only.,<ref>http://www.mocharterschools.org/</ref> and elsewhere when certain limiting conditions are satisfied. In 2012, Missouri recently passed SB 576 to expand charter schools while requiring greater transparency and accountability for them. Missouri has not changed its charter school law since 2016.
The *Although [[NEATexas]] opposes charter has traditionally been friendly toward alternate education platforms, it has maintained a fairly hard cap on the number of schoolspermitted, and the cap is a statewide cap as opposed to a cap in a specific area (e.g. Houston or Dallas, which typically do not use teachers' unions that benefit have large, ineffective public school districts). In addition, in the NEAlarge cities, attempts have been made to stop charter schools from opening (by denying building permits, zoning changes, and similar tactics).
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