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When Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, spoke to the National Press Club in Washington, DC in March 1988, he proposed a new type of public school that would be experimental, work closely with existing school districts, promote stronger forms of teacher control, and reinvigorate the importance of promoting economically and racially integrated education. Using the term coined by Ray Budde that same year, these new “charter” schools would be laboratories for innovation that would raise educational achievement across the landscape of public education (Shanker, 1998; Kahlenberg & Potter, 2014; Budde, 1988).
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Norflus-Good, J., Degroot, A., Urbiel, A., Schussler, M. (2016). Charter Schools and Special Needs Children. In: Bitz, M. (eds) The Charter School Experience. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-690-3_9
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