Kansans Speak on Charter Schools

Interesting story on Kansas Watchdog regarding current laws in Kansas and what voters think of charter school restrictions.

The report cited in the article mentioned three states which earned strong A’s (the District of Columbia, Minnesota and California) share these five characteristics:

1. Set charter schools aside in creation and oversight from the conventional system.
2. Ensure that the same amount of money allotted for one child’s education in a state follows that child to the school of choice — entirely.
3. Permit distinct, independent entities to open schools and hold them accountable for both growing charter schools that are great and closing those that are not.
4. Educate children well and add value every year to the learning they receive.
5. Do not require adherence to the same failed layers of oversight and bureaucracy that have hindered progress in our conventional public schools.

Also interesting in the article was a survey conducted asking Kansas voters how much they thought government is spending per pupil on education- only 10 percent of respondents were correct.