Cunningham, 2011
Research shows a significant relationship between the condition of school facilities and student performance.1 Public schools of all kinds find it difficult to provide adequate learning facilities with their limited budgets. Charter schools in particular, however, struggle to provide school facilities that match the quality of traditional public schools.
As charter schools take their place as an established component of public edu- cation systems state legislatures will face questions about the kind of facilities to which charter schools have access. Included in this discussion are policy options for states to consider to ensure adequate funding for charter school facilities, and the inequities that exist between traditional and charter school facilities due to charter schools’ inability to secure such funding.