Deck 11: Public Funding of Private Schools: Charter Schools and Vouchers

Question 1

Charter schools are public schools.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The idea for charter school emanated from Margaret Thatcher's Tory policies in the United Kingdom in 1988.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Charter schools are anchored in the belief that choice and competition will improve the quality of elementary and secondary education.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Charter schools are designed to operate with taxpayer money, but not be subject to taxpayer control.

Question 5

Charter schools are, at least partially, a device to circumvent teacher unions and teacher tenure.

Question 6

President Obama has made the public charter school one of the central aspects of his educational reform initiative.

Question 7

The United States Court of Appeals has held that for-profit charter schools are ineligible to receive federal funds under ESEA and IDEA legislation.

Question 8

Research has clearly shown charter schools are more effective due to parental choice and school competition.

Question 9

Charter schools typically enroll a higher percentage of white students than the nearest traditional public school.

Question 10

Race is a powerful predictor of the schools that parents choose.

Question 11

Parental choice generally results in white families choosing charter schools that have more white students and African-American families choosing charter schools with more black students.

Question 12

Charter schools competition with public schools will result in public schools having higher bond ratings.

Question 13

Charter schools' administrative overhead is less than in public schools.

Question 14

Charter schools are public schools.

Question 15

The idea for charter school emanated from Margaret Thatcher's Tory policies in the United Kingdom in 1988.

Question 16

Charter schools are anchored in the belief that choice and competition will improve the quality of elementary and secondary education.

Question 17

Charter schools are designed to operate with taxpayer money, but not be subject to taxpayer control.

Question 18

Charter schools are, at least partially, a device to circumvent teacher unions and teacher tenure.

Question 19

President Obama has made the public charter school one of the central aspects of his educational reform initiative.

Question 20

Parents in exercising school choice will select those schools that have the best teachers and educational programs.

Question 21

Parental choice in selecting schools will be rational and promotive of better education.

Question 22

Unregulated markets are rational for both Wall Street and education.

Question 23

School market imperfections are created by asymmetric information.

Question 24

What is the economic theory that is advanced to support the creation of charter schools?

Question 25

What is the charter school relationship between business and labor in the United States?

Question 26

What is meant by the observation that a "definitional reshuffling" of public schools has justified the establishment of charter schools?

Question 27

In what case did the U.S. Supreme Court change the meaning of The Establishment Clause of the Constitution to permit public funds to flow to church schools?

Question 28

Why will charter schools generally maintain relatively high rates of teacher turnover?

Question 29

Explain why asymmetric aspects of parental choice of charter and voucher schools lead to greater segregation of taxpayer funding of elementary and secondary education.

Question 30

What was the CREDO study and how did it shed some light on the charter school vs. public school debate? What were the essential findings of the CREDO study?

Question 31

Why can charter schools not be legitimately defined as public schools?

Question 32

How do charter schools affect the bond ratings of public schools?

Question 33

What are the basic features of state funding of charter schools?

Question 34

Are charter schools more effective than public schools in educating elementary school children? Explain.

Question 35

Administrative expenditures of charter schools greatly exceed public schools as a percentage of their respective budgets. Why?

Question 36

Is there any evidence that state shifts to charter schools from public schools will tend to racially re-segregate the schools? Explain.

Question 37

Have vouchers historically been utilized to segregate schools by religion? By race? By ethnicity? Explain.

Question 38

Explain the statement, "The actual motivation for states to create state-funded vouchers for Catholic and other private schools must be for reasons other than school efficiency and productivity."

Question 39

Why is parental choice of schools generally based on asymmetric information? What is asymmetric information with regard to schooling?

Question 40

Does parental choice make public schools more efficient? Explain.

Question 41

What did Rousseau mean when in 1758 he concluded that "personal interest is always in inverse ratio" to the common interest?

Question 42

What effect will market forces, "marketism," have on mass education?