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year of the charter schools the students attending outperformed their public school counterparts academically and only required two thirds of the funding that the public schools needed to operate including any grant money they were receiving (Ryan, 2004).
Charter Schools can also get federal funding to assist with the initial set up costs and planning. Wisconsin took advange of this and received a 27 million dollar grant from the federal government to support planning and start up of new charter schools. It includes about 150 charter schools within the grant money. Thus, charter schools are also increasing not only because of performance but because of the federal government being willing to back them. Charter schools can receive money to ensure that they are fully planned and staff is fully trained ( Decker, P.C., Geraghty, L. & Wendt, S., 2004).

Discussion
Many states are looking to charter schools as a way of reforming their current education system. The Florida State Senate website (2006) publishes updates on the charter school legislation. One update states that Florida has been working hard at creating charter school laws that will make charter schools easier to start up. Florida describes this law as ""This is a major step forward for Florida education" (2006).
I believe that when the city of New Orleans is closely examined there are many opportunities for charter schools to improve the fragile nature of the cities educational state. The Urban Institute has recommended that New Orleans seek the help of organizations that will create charter schools. They see this as the solution to part of the problem with the low quality education that students have received in the past. Furthermore, charter schools provide much needed flexibility where students can be sent to a school that can educated them according to their instructional needs and learning style. Through this analysis of the city of New Orleans it is clear that charter schools will be playing a larger role in education throughout the US (Hill, P. & Hanaway, J., 2006).

References

Carpenter, Dick M. Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape. Retrieved July 12,
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Decker, P. C., Geraghty, L. & Wendt, S. (2004). The Legislative Report on Charter Schools. Statutory Report Series.
Hill, Paul T. (2005). Doing School Choice Right. American Journal of Education, 111, 141-151.
Hill, Paul & Hannaway, Jane. Urban Institute. (2006). The Future of Public Education in New Orleans. After Katrina: Rebuilding Opportunity and Equity into the "New" New Orleans.
Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute, Washington D.C.
Ornstein, A.C. & Hunkins, F.P. (2004). Curriculum Foundations Principles and Issues
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Ryan, Terry. Thomas B Fordham Foundation and Institute. (2004). A Wide-Angle Look at the
Charter School Movement in Ohio/Dayton. Washington, D.C., Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, Washington, D.C.
Unknown. About Charter Schools. Retrieved July 17, 2006, from http://www.uscharterschools.or g/pub/uscs_docs/o/movement.htm .
Unknown. Charter Schools. Retrieved July 17, 2006, from http://www.nea.org/charter/ind ex.html.
Unknown. Florida Senate Improves Opportunities for Charter Schools. Retrieved July 12, 2006, from http://www.edreform.com/index. cfm?fuseAction=document&docume ntID=2387
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References
Washington. Department of Education. (2004). Charter Schools Program Title V, Part Non-Regulatory Guidance. Washington, D.C.: US Department of Education.

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