Cami Anderson, with her vision to encourage progressive learning and create more options for under-credited students proposed to open up alternative high schools. The city alternative high school overseer planned to open three additional charter schools for kids by 2011 to prevent kids from dropping out. The high school program includes a self spaced work online to a small group of students and will require every learner a self plan. She believes that this will help overage students and drop outs students to have more choices upon continuing their education. If this proposal gets approved, the New York superintendent will be the first person to handle educational obligations outside her district concerning charter schools.

Unfortunately, Anderson’s proposal is facing many objections and criticisms even among charter school supporters. The proposal is currently screened at the charter school board. The legitimate concern is whose interests they are going to have front and center in deliberations, Tood Zeibarth (vice president at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools). Though faced with different issues, Anderson’s team is seeking formal guidance from the Conflict of Interest Board in order to pass out their chartering plan.

About charter schools:

Charter schools are primary and secondary schools which receives financial support through public and private donations but are not subjected to some of the rules that apply to some other public schools in exchange for accountability for producing certain results. Such schools do not have tuition fees but still a part of the educational system. State authorized charter schools are chartered by local school districts. Charter schools exist due to parents, teachers, universities and some activists that feels restricted by the policies of traditional schools. Though some school districts permit corporations to manage chains of charter schools, the school themselves are still non-profit.