"America's Charter School movement shifts into High Gear"

From the Kipp Charter school network with schools in major American cities such as Los Angeles and Houston, to Hartford's Capital Prepatory; the introduction of charter schools as a replacement for many of the nation's underachieving public schools is a welcomed development for those that thirst for schools and educators that can effectively educate.  These publicly funded but alternatively managed schools are known to operate without the bureaucratic regulations that often serve as impediments to the effective delivery of education.  These impediments are known to institutionally promote a lack of versatility in resource management that many underachieving schools need to turn around their respective school's performance.  Nowhere is this more evident than in the Kentucky community referenced in the article below: 

http://www.newsdemocratleader.com/view/full_story/23274008/article-Survey-says--Vulnerable-Kentuckians-want-charter-schools?instance=popular

And while the effectiveness of these schools can be debated utilizing varying student performance metrics as evidence of either success or failure, it's clear that communities that embrace charter schools do so while highlighting an underlying lack of confidence in their political and labor representatives that are responsible  for shaping educational policy in a way that benefits students and not their own interest.  It's widely understood and accepted that in many cities, the status quo of public school management serves no one but those that champion it.  Students continue to developmentally lag compared to their counterparts and do so with no promise of institutional change that can reverse the trend.  Parents, educators and community members generally thirst for any type of shift in business practice that can result in their community's students attending schools that are free to innovate in order to educate.  It's this thirst that rallies parents and community alike to affect change in schools.  And as a result of the aforementioned lack of confidence in those that can alter and reshape educational policy, charter schools remain a vehicle by which underachieving and underserved schools can be remade into institutions that produce students equipped with the educational tools that they were promised when they were enrolled.