Most of a school's funding comes from per-pupil allocations, and the amount of money per student is the same for every major funding category no matter where the student goes to school. Because the size of a school's budget depends mostly on the number of students it enrolls, there's a built-in incentive for schools to strive to keep the students they have and even attract new ones. Fewer contractual restrictions are placed on Team-based Schools than currently exist for other schools. Team-based Schools also are organized differently than conventional schools. Teams of three to five teachers stay with a group of students for multiple years - until the students have met the promotional standards for an entire instructional level.
Charter schools are free from many of the rules that apply to other public schools.
Under the Cincinnati Board of Education's Charter Schools Policy, existing high-performing district schools, or district schools that are being redesigned because of low performance, are eligible to become charter schools. The school board also is inviting proposals for new startup charter schools that meet special student or community needs, or that feature promising educational designs.