Just a Thought: Chartered Success

My other passion other than personal financial empowerment is education reform. Here and Harlem, public charter schools and public magnet schools have a niche, although currently they have to share resources (buildings) with other public schools. Leaders are working to help charter schools move into their own buildings to prevent divisiveness in the student body. However, some areas, like the community of Watts in Los Angeles, have bigger struggles. The following is a clip from Reason.TV: (Facebookers, you'll have to click through to the main site)...




I think that public charter and magnet schools could help improve a community in innovative ways. When people move into a community, one of the biggest factors is the quality of schools. Parents will often look over a neighborhood if they don't like the caliber of schools offered. Often, lower-income communities have lower-quality schools that will have a very difficult time improving because of a reduced tax base. By introducing charter/magnet options into a community parents from a wider range of incomes will move into communities, adding to the tax base. This could theoretically funnel resources into all the schools in the neighborhood/zone and can encourage info-sharing between schools so that they can all improve.