Charter schools may help students achieve success, but some experts claim they harm traditional public schools via funding and transparency issues.
At the organizational level, though, critics say charter schools harm the wider public school district, due to funding and transparency concerns.
"I'm opposed to publicly funded charter schools that are run privately," said Joseph Roy, superintendent of schools at the school district in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania."Don't tell me you're a public school if you're not governed by the public." When a child leaves a district-run public school, the tax dollars follow that student to the charter school. Opponents of charter schools say even though the student is leaving the school, it doesn't reduce the traditional public school's costs.
"What winds up happening is there is a downward spiral because as the money goes out with kids, the services the district can provide become less and less," said Carol Burris, executive director of the Network for Public Education, an advocacy group that is outspoken against charter schools."So more parents leave for charter schools. And it puts some districts in critical places where they're really not able to service the kids that they have.
"Right now we're operating parallel school systems and at some point it's going to break," Burris said.
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