DeArmond, Jochim, and Lake (2014) looked at how the issue of governance affects both
charters and traditional public
schools in high - choice cities and found nearly eight agencies — including
school districts,
charter authorizers, and other state and local entities —
responsible for oversight in the typical municipality, «making patchwork governance the norm, rather
than the exception» (p. 15).
Charter schools now educate more
than half as many children as attend private
schools, and are
responsible for a major increase in the fraction of American students attending
schools that their families choose.