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52 Charter schools differ in character based primarily on the enabling legislation of the
jurisdiction in which they operate.
53 It is strange to have local school boards act as a charter-granting institution because the local
bureaucracy often has strong interests in favour of job security and the integrity of the public
school system that run directly counter to encouraging the flourishing of an alternative
school system. In fact, this is what has typified the Alberta charter school experience, where
only two of twelve charter schools were supported by local school boards. The remaining
charters had to be considered and renewed directly by the Minister of Education. For a full
discussion, see Lynn Bosetti et al., Canadian Charter Schools at the Crossroads (Kelowna,
BC: Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education, 2000), p. 113; also Lynn
Bosetti, “The Alberta charter school experience,” in Claudia R.Hepburn (ed.) Can the
Market Save Our Schools? (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2001), pp. 101–20.
54 Ibid., 2000, p. 113.
55 Ibid., p. 10.
56 Edwin G.West, “Education vouchers in practice and principle: a world survey,” Human
Capital Development and Operations Policy—Working Papers (February, 1996), available
at: http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/workp/wp_00064.html. See also
Ladner and Brouilette, supra note 44, p. 396.
57 Claudia Rebanks Hepburn, “The case for school choice: models from the United States, New
Zealand, Denmark, and Sweden,” Fraser Institute Critical Issues Bulletin (1999), available
at: http://www.fraserinstitute.ca/.
58 Ibid., p. 10.
59 Caroline M.Hoxby, supra note 46, p. 4.
60 However, Lin reports that charter schools devote an average of 30 percent of their revenues
to business and administration as compared with 12 percent for non-charter public schools.
Qiuyun Lin, “An evaluation of charter school effectiveness,” Education, 122(1) (2001), p.
171.
61 Caroline M.Hoxby, supra note 46, p. 35.
62 Ibid., p. 61.
63 Ibid., p. 60.
64 Le Grand, supra note 51, Chapter 8.
65 Ibid., p. 109.
66 Ibid., p. 110.
67 Le Grand, supra note 51, p. 113.
68 Beverly Lynn Bosetti et al., Canada’s Charter Schools: Initial Report (Kelowna, BC:
Society for the Advancement of Excellence in Education, 1998), available at:
http://www.excellenceineducation.ca/publications/A_002_AAA_MID.php.
69 Arthur Sweetman, “Ontario’s kindergarten to grade 12 education system: some thoughts for
the future,” Report to the Panel on the Role of Government in Ontario (2003), available at:
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/investing/reports/rp25.pdf.
70 Hepburn, supra note 57, p. 20.
71 Ibid.
72 Ibid., p. 18.
73 Ladner and Brouilette, supra note 44, pp. 397–8.
74 Paul E.Peterson, “School choice: a report card,” Virginia Journal of Social Policy and the
Law, 6 (1998), p. 52.
75 Hepburn, supra note 57, p. 17.
76 Lin, supra note 60.
77 Hepburn, supra note 57, p. 30.
78 Caroline M.Hoxby, supra note 46, p. 22.
79 Ibid.
80 Ibid., p. 23.