Public, Private and Charter Schools

• Public
• Pro
• Not sheltered
• Liberal arts
• critical thinking
• Con
• Sexual
• teach to the test
• bad teachers (tenure)
• high student:teacher ratio
• Private
• Pro
• Lower ratio of student:teacher
• know more about each other
• Con
• Not free
• Sheltered
• Inclusive special education program
• Public
• Controlled by school board
• until 1840, only wealthy kids went to school
• all students must go to school was a law that was passed in 1918
• Catholic's didn't like it, so they created Catholic Schools
• Pros
• Free
• More Diverse
• Free transportation
• Cons
• Large class sizes
• stigma of being a smart kid
• kid's don't think about school at the end of the day
• testing
• SPED
• IDEA
• FAPE
• IEP
• LRE
• Private
• Voucher
• State gives you money to get your child into a private school
• Special Education?  Not really
• Charter Schools
• Doesn't have to follow rules
• MN was first state to pass charter law
• Charter
• School's mission, programs, etc.
• Pro
• No tuition
• No school board controlling them
• Con
• Under constant pressure to perform
• lottery system
• SPED in Charter schools
• How are they going to implement SPED in their school?