Studying Media Representations of Charter Schools

Time to Stop Beating Up on Charter Schools [Mackinac Center] Recently, Michigan’s 186 charter schools have come under unfair attack.

During the recent campaign, the Democratic candidate for governor took a swipe at Michigan’s charter schools, telling the Lansing State Journal that they “lack accountability.” Far from lacking accountability, charters actually meet one critical measure of accountability that no other public schools can boast: the ability of their customers to say “no, thanks” and take a walk. No Michigan parent is required to send their child to a charter school. If, for any reason, charter parents are unhappy, they can always return to a traditional public school at any time. Charter schools have exactly the kind of bottom-up accountability needed to improve public education in Michigan.

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