Thomas Ravenel on Education

Charter schools' success prove point of local empowerment

The recent trend of charter schools proves the point of local empowerment. When given a choice, people across America are more and more choosing charter schools, which are publicly funded but operated outside the established education bureaucracy. Charter schools bring control out of the distant halls of education administration and back to the neighborhoods. If this principle works on the school district level: and I firmly believe it does: it certainly can work on the federal level!