A Smarter Charter by Richard D. Kahlenberg

What School Reform Can Learn from America's Private Schools

The book argues that charter schools should be reshaped to promote equity and social integration rather than deepen segregation, proposing practical reforms—targeted enrollment and outreach to low‑income students, weighted funding, open lotteries and fair admissions, rigorous oversight and accountability, and collaboration with traditional public schools and teachers’ unions—to ensure charters improve outcomes for disadvantaged children and strengthen the public education system.