Are charter schools better than public schools in Florida?
Are charter schools better than public schools in Florida? FL's charter schools for the most part perform better than traditional public schools when it comes to test scores on state exams, according to a Florida Department of Education report released Monday. But the analysis also shows that traditional public schools have higher percentages of students in poverty. What is the difference of a charter school and a public school? A charter school is an independently run public school that is granted greater flexibility in its operations than a traditional public school in exchange for greater accountability for performance. Charter schools...