Parent and family services. Co-curricular Special education. Some federally funded title programs provide students with additional services in areas such as reading, math, drug awareness or fitness. Arts and physical education. When a school considers arts and physical education as extracurricular, it implies they are not important.
Some charter schools require parents to volunteer a minimum number of hours.
If they don't, parents pay a fee. Curriculum descriptions, scope and sequence One of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child is a successful education, and charter schools can play an important role in that. But as with any life-molding decision they make for their children, parents should do their homework first. In response to demands for better performance and more choice among public schools, in the early 1990s a number of state legislatures passed laws allowing parents, teachers or other interested groups to develop charter schools, which receive public funds but are freed from most state and local regulations governing typical public schools. Instead, they are held accountable by state laws and fiscal responsibility for improving student performance and meeting the goals of their charter contracts.