Last year, students at the Charter School of Wilmington, Delaware, had the highest average SAT scores of any public school in the state. But other charters haven't lived up to their promises, and their contracts have been canceled. Whatever the failings of individual charter schools, the movement has challenged longheld traditions of education. Schools have opened to serve dropouts, kids with learning disabilities, and high-achieving science and math students. The charter school movement responds to that deep need-the idea that we can do better.
Charter schools are about hope, about people believing they can make a difference.
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