Allow more autonomy. Some argue that charter schools should be able to work with their teachers to create the most appropriate terms and conditions of employment. Massachusetts is one state that has taken this advice and left the negotiation process to the individual schools. Maintain the agreement. Proponents of maintaining collective bargaining laws in charter schools are wary that decentralizing employment decisions will create an unfair system of wage and benefit distribution within the public school system.
Limits are key.
The National Education Association Action Plan states, Charter schools are experimental. Very little is yet known about their implications, educationally or otherwise. No limits on numbers of charter schools. Others argue that early results have proven positive, and the movement should be given the chance to expand to meet the demand for innovation in education. Proponents of lifting caps on charter school growth point to states like Massachusetts, where in 1996 over 3,000 students were on waiting lists to get into existing charter schools, and over a hundred applications for charter schools were rejected.