At charter schools, parents have the power to choose. As a result, choice means competition, which is a force that often hastens change and improvement in any organization or system. All schools, district and charter, are forced by competition to examine why parents, students, or prospective teachers might be choosing to go to other schools. Poor, urban students can meet high academic standards. Teachers can be treated as professionals.
Parents can become more involved in their children's education.
Competition can cause change. Schools can be purposeful, mission-driven organizations. School leaders don't need to be told what to do or how to do it. Bad public schools can be closed down. The report offers an excellent glimpse at what citizens might expect from the passage of a well-written charter school law.