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For-Profit Charter Schools: What the Public Needs to Know.
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Dykgraaf, Christy Lancaster; Lewis, Shirley Kane – Educational Leadership, 1998
For-profit charter-school managers may be removing the "public" from public education. A study of 11 Michigan charter schools showed that cost-cutting strategies are adversely affecting student transportation, special education, and the socioeconomic mix of students. Corporations' superimposed bureaucracies have eradicated educators'…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Cost Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Legal Problems