Traditional schools, in contrast, do not have such costs. Glenn Noreen, school development director with Sabis Educational Systems, a service provider that will open the International Academy of Flint this fall, said rent and lease payments alone can skew a charter school's administrative costs. If Michigan gave us that kind of money, we could fill out the state financial reports differently and be right in line with traditional schools. Gary Wolfram, a professor at Hillsdale College and former member of the Michigan Board of Education, released a study at today's news conference that included a look at charter school financial issues. Using the state's Bulletin 1014 without analyzing the detail behind the data results in grossly misleading conclusions.
Parents love charter schools.
As many as 50,000 students will be enrolled at charter schools this fall, because their parents see tremendous educations being offered there. He said charters often provide immensely popular services that cost more. Those include individual education plans for each student, foreign languages in every grade and the use of national standardized tests to measure student progress. Charters offer these services while receiving less state funding, he said. We surpassed statewide MEAP averages this year.