Charter schools were designed to be free from the rules, norms, and regulations that have prevented innovation in traditional public schools; yet charter school authorizers often require applicants to complete hundreds of tasks to open a charter school.
After interviewing charter school leaders and analyzing application data, AEI’s Michael McShane, Elizabeth English, and Jenn Hatfield explain that this lengthy and expensive application process is most damaging to smaller, community-based operators:
“…as charter authorizing becomes increasingly bureaucratic and muscular, it is almost impossible for small groups of teachers to withstand the long, expensive, and complex process to apply for and open a charter school.
All the names that charter advocates now exalt were once small operators trying to get a chance to educate kids. By larding up charter applications and branding those who do not want to or cannot jump through those hoops as not serious or qualified enough to run schools, we risk unjustly narrowing the pool of charter operators and shutting out innovation. “
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