Public School System Reform

Public Education, as it is today, is in dire need of reform. Children find themselves in overcrowded classrooms, fearful of violence, unconnected to their teachers, and without adequate learning materials. From city school to suburban school, New York to California, changes need to be made.
In the past several years, we have explored every conceivable approach to improving education: new curricula, scholarships, vocational supplements, magnets, fast tracks, slow tracks, team teaching, school-within-a-school, and every variation of all the above and more. Nothing has worked to our satisfaction. (Lewis, 203)

Although, various claims have been brought up and new programming has been tested, such as Charter Schools and the Voucher Program, none of these proposals are actual solutions to the problems at hand.

Charter schools, as defined by Chester E. Finn, Jr., et al. in "The New School", are a hybrid between public schools and the most highly ...