A Reform Of Public School

As one phenomenal renovation of public school, the Charter School Movement was brought on in the early 1990s. The so-called "charter school" generally refers to the public school established on the basis of accountability regulated by the charter or contract, which implies charter, publicness, and accountability compose the essence of "charter school". Among them, charter is the carrier of charter schools, publicness the inbeing, and accountability the foundation stone. The Charter School Movement in the USA first sprung up in 1991, symbolized by the first charter school law issued by State Minnesota. One year later, a teacher in Minnesota finally established the first charter school in real sense. During the following 11 years, charter schools came to thrive with the interposition of private corporations and the supportive back of the federal governments. Up to 2003, 40 states have passed the law of charter schools, and 2,996 charter schools were established around the whole USA.To some extent, the Charter School Movement serves a connecting link between the preceding and the following, bridging the development of modern American education and the reformation of modern education. As a new type of American school, charter school, along with the free school, magnet school, home school, and contract school are all part of the Alternative School Movement in the USA dated from the end of 1960s. The evolution and development of charter schools are not only a part of the progress of modern American education, but also represents the spring tide of the renovation of modern American public education. Therefore, a study on the Charter School Movement would enable microcosmically an embodied understanding of the history of American education in the sense of modern development, laying a solid foundation for the comprehensive research on the reform of American education.The dissertation, in four chapters respectively, cutting in from the historical perspective, gives a comprehensive review and analysis on the Charter School Movement in the USA. Chapter one presents the background of the Charter School Movement involving the conditioning of politics and economy, the emergence of new trend of theories and thoughts, the eruption of educational quality crisis, and the prelude of the Charter School Movement, which macroscopically, theoretically, and...