Value of charter schools

The State Office of Education is looking at the charter-school funding rates all wrong. Charter schools are doing as good a job as public schools at educating children, and they do so with less state money per pupil ($500 less per pupil). Charter schools are an economical, effective way to fund education in Utah, where we are continually in a growth mode. Rather than cut the charter-school rate, the Legislature should maintain the rate at its current level and make more, lots more, money available to fund additional charter schools to provide more children a quality education at less cost.

Eileen Chamberland

Pleasant Grove