Charter Schools: The Education Solution Strangling the Public Education System

This paper investigates why charter schools exist in Missouri and how judicial precedent has permitted their constitutionality. It will highlight their potential for corrupt policy, rebut the scant evidence proving they perform better than public schools, and demonstrate that charter schools are not the effective solution to poor public-school performance as they were initially intended. Rather they are disguised constitutional violations. This paper proposes that the United States abandon the charter school movement, concentrate all educational funding in public schools, and use the grants intended for charter schools to implement educational reform proven to be effective.