ed, if you produce anything less, you go out of business.Opening a charter school also brings with it the ability to choose the school where you want your children to go. The center for education reform has taken a strong view on the subject of choice with charter schools. They believe that if the students choose to attend a certain school and the teachers choose to teach at a certain school, then the chances of success are more likely because both have chosen to be there (Center for education reform, 1999).The charter school must still operate lawfully and responsibly, but are much more free of red tape than regular public schools. Public schools governed by the state legislature and department of education are notoriously known to have bottlenecks when it comes to providing adequate educational opportunities for students. By moving the management decisions down to the local level, those bottlenecks that pop up can more readily be eliminated. Don Klein and JoAnn Izu make an excellent suggestion about management in charter schools. Along with the usual curricular and instructional areas, they suggest that charter schools will need diverse management styles such as finance, marketing, procurement, legal, and political areas to succeed (Klein, Izu, Yamashiro, 1999).As was stated earlier, charter schools are public schools. This means that public monies are used in support of the school. If or when a child leaves a regular public school system and enters a charter school, the normal amount of money the state has allocated to that student's education will follow him/her to the new school. Because the charter schools have a sense of accountability with the community, studies have found that charter schools are more efficient with the money allocated to them. For example, the center for education reform found a charter school in San Fernando Valley that in its first year of operations, was able to create a $1 million surplus (the cent...
