Chapter 1716 The So-Called Charter School

"Hey, Jason, you're here too? Why didn't you notify me?"

Conrad was also surprised to see Yang Cheng, but he was more happy. After all, sitting with acquaintances is better than being embarrassed with strangers.

Yang Cheng said helplessly, "I didn't want to come, but you also know that this time is too sensitive."

Conrad thought so deeply, but said, "You have to understand Bessie's mood. After all, there is still suspense about the position of minister. She must use all available objects to increase her bargaining chips~"

Yang Cheng frowned and asked, "According to you, there are still variables in this matter?"

"Of course, until the last moment, there will always be variables."

Yang Cheng was about to continue asking, but Conrad pouted, "Bessie is here~"

Turning around, I saw Bessie walking over with a smile and sitting beside Liu Junyu, but she didn't even look at her.

"Jason, Conrad, what new ideas do you have for my proposal?"

Her outspoken attitude just shows that she regards Conrad and Yang Cheng as her own, so there is no need to waste too much talking.

However, Yang Cheng has reservations about her proposal. She strives for the benefits of ordinary students and charter schools. There is no doubt about the starting point of this matter. This is a good deed, maybe it will not succeed?

Yang Cheng felt that it was very difficult. There are so many public schools in the United States, and the combined strength is still very strong. Maybe even her chance of taking office will be ruined, and the proposal will be impossible to talk about.

It must be emphasized here that public schools in the United States mainly refer to schools that are funded by the country, state and region, mainly including public schools and charter schools allocated according to school districts. In other words, charter schools themselves are a kind of public schools. .

Public schools allocated according to school districts can obtain national, state, and regional tax triple budget funds to run schools. These schools are generally ranked by the address where students live, and are greatly affected by local taxes, which leads to the birth of school district housing. High housing prices bring more Good community environment and land tax funding source.

On the other hand, in some messy areas, parents do not pay attention to education, housing prices are low and land taxes are low, which has spawned many dilapidated public schools. Teachers sit on the funds provided by the government and do not seek merit but do nothing. This is a deteriorating condition of education in the area. They are also indifferent, and will only force the government to pay more money to support teachers through the teachers' union. If there are too many, nothing can be cut off, and it also indirectly harms ordinary international students who study in the United States.

These international students do not rely on government funding, and secondly, they do not have a prominent family background. They are able to go abroad basically relying on their own efforts and receiving school scholarships. On weekdays, they need work-study programs to earn living expenses. I don't know the school's situation at all, so I can only listen to the agency's arrangement, and what the agency says is what it says. When I arrived in the United States and found out that it was a rubbish school, it was too late to quit.

Of course, not only ordinary students, but also many wealthy international students who have nowhere to go in the United States have fallen into similar traps, so some things are really hard to guard against. We can only keep our eyes open and take a good look, or simply don’t go abroad. It's not 20 years ago now, the domestic education level is pretty good, and you don't have to be bullied and stared at in your own country.

Long story short, let’s get back to the point. It is a well-known fact that there is a huge gap between public schools in the United States. Two schools that are very close to each other may have completely opposite teaching quality.

Public school districts are like canteens. What matters is not the taste, but the quantity. As long as the taste can be swallowed, it is enough. They pursue fairness but sacrifice the opportunity to teach students according to their aptitude. There is a very serious conflict between the requirements of teaching quality assessment and the interests of students in pursuing their studies.

This is a rigid system that has been criticized for a long time. Bessie is not the first minister to try to leverage this cake.

And it won't be the last one. Every official who has just taken office has a dream of pleading for the people. Unfortunately, the officialdom is a big dyeing vat. After a long time, even a piece of iron can be dyed, let alone people.

For parents who can’t afford private schools, they can’t break through the monopoly of public schools on educational resources. If they can’t afford a school district house and can’t get into a good school, they can only watch their children skip classes and skip school!

sad? Sad, and then someone came up with a solution, and charter schools were created to address the ills of public schools.

At that time, someone suggested that the government should not monopolize educational resources, and teachers should be allowed to use more flexible, specific, and efficient teaching methods to meet the needs of individual children, such as those who cannot afford tuition fees or afford housing in the school district.

Then charter schools were established. To put it bluntly, this is the same management as private schools, but with government budget allocations, students enroll for free.

It has to be said that the existence of charter schools does solve part of the problem. These various charter schools can help those ethnic minorities and underprivileged students who have excellent academic performance but cannot afford to go to school find the joy of studying in school and help They improve their skills and step into society with a better attitude.

In the past few years, nearly a quarter of the top 200 schools in the United States were charter schools, which shows that the quality of education in charter schools is not low.

However, charter schools have encountered great resistance in the development process, not only from the hostility of public schools, but also have great problems. If they are not uniform, it is difficult for the school to carry out unified management.

Coupled with the deliberate targeting of public schools, they believe that charter schools have robbed the students and funds of public schools in the school district. Several states have an extremely negative attitude towards the existence of charter schools, and have imposed multiple restrictions on their establishment approval and budget allocation.

This is the problem that Bessie DeVos wants to solve. She wants to get more financial support for charter schools, to be able to build more charter schools, and to make charter schools that have existed for many years develop better and attract more unskilled schools. Children who have the ability to go to school, but who are highly gifted, come to school.

If this thing is done by her, she will definitely become one of the greatest education secretaries in American history!

However, it is not luan, the idea is very good, the reality will tell her that the dream is only a dream after all.

As for someone who said: There is still a dream, what if it comes true? There is no problem with this sentence itself, it is only because it comes from the mouth of a successful person that it will be spread. If your neighbor Uncle Wang told you this sentence, if you don’t pry his wife, you will be regarded as a good character!