In other words, to return to the original purpose of charter schools, which was to be laboratories of innovation that the public schools that spawned them could apply in their own classrooms. (edsource.org)
Meanwhile, the stated purpose of charter schools — to serve as mini-laboratories, experimenting with new education concepts and methods so that the successful new ideas can be incorporated into the public schools — has never been realized, anywhere. (nystateofpolitics.com)
One of the main purposes of charter schools is to give families more educational options for their children, and hopefully, to make sure that at least one of their options is a phenomenal school at no cost to them. (txcharterschools.org)