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The topic that I am going to be talk of the town almost in this essay is a very big and disputed issue. That is rather it is a good idea or bad to pursue our failing common school system. So far it seems the non-chartering path is in the lead, but charting school is catching up fast. In this essay Im going to sum one term title The bracing School, by Chester E. Finn Jr. that supports the charter system. Also I will summarize an article title To Market, To Market, by Phyllis Vine who seem to strongly opposed the charting our public system. As far as my personal opinion goes, I weigh charter schools are still in its infancy, we should give it more than time to develop before we can actually decide rather charter school is a good idea or not. I would go into greater detail later in the essay.The Pro-charter article title The New School, by Chester E. Finn Jr. who is the former assistant secretary of rearing believed and I quote charter schools offer the benefits of both pu blic and confidential schools and can revitalize urban education. He started the article by stating that currently the charter systems enrolling about 170,000 students, with about twenty-nine school authorizing and allowing charter schools to be built and operated, states such as California, Michigan, Texas, Massachusetts. What is a charter school? Well, fit in to the article, it is a public school with some of the most highly prized features of reclusive schools. The best part is it is offered to anyone who wishes to attend, with no additional cost to the parents, because it is pay for by the tax dollars. Out of all the charter school, many are owned and operated by local community and parents. But there are about 2 dozen that are operated and owned by the Edison Project and the educational Alternatives Inc. For some other firms instead of operating and owning the entire school, they target unique(predicate) area, such as the furnishing, tutoring, and technology to name a fe w. According to this article the educational system in the United States is $300 billion enterprise. plot Chester states maybe a reason for some firms to try to jump on board the chartering business. From Chesters article he stated that in two years time he visited about sixty schools in xiv states and interviewed few hundreds of those either worked or attended those schools.