Just Imagine The Possibilities Teachers and parents of an inner city public school in Los Angeles secure a charter and convert their school into a charter school. However, all that money stays right at the school site, providing for new computers and equipment, proper maintenance, and the construction of fourteen more classrooms. More teachers are hired. They are given greater authority and paid more.
Children feel more secure and their achievement rapidly improves.
Parents and teachers are thrilled. A group of frustrated teachers in Minnesota sense they can do better. They form a cooperative, a legal entity in their state, secure a charter and open their own public school. Together they determine which teaching methods and materials they will use, their teaching assignments, how the school is to be managed and even their own remuneration. The teachers are no longer employees, it is their own school.