School System Shake Up Organizational Model Analysis

In the article, School System Shake Up Organizational Model, the one thing that resonates with me is the increase and impact of charter schools. It is evident, parents want options especially if their child is slated to attend low performing schools. Large school districts need to be broken into smaller more manageable pieces. Not only are charter school on the rise there is an increase in state or government run schools which means the decisions are not made by local elected boards. The idea of giving principals and schools more power or control is a good idea, some district or central offices have become too big and lack connections to schools in their own district. I have heard of some of the changes that were discussed in the article
such as school based autonomy. I have also seen the increase of charter schools. Some of these charter schools are totally for profit and not even based in the state. I have witnessed the numbers of students that go to charter schools and return mid-year because promises that were made were not fulfilled. The idea of state run schools seems to be a last resort for schools that continue to have low academic performance.
Parents and students should have a choice, but with the desire and need to reform schools there needs to be stricter guidelines for charter schools. I have heard stories of schools just shutting their doors and putting a note on the door. The reduction or remodeling of the top down approach is good. Yes, the education needs change the reduction of some testing could be a change as well as common test for each state. The lot of the change or the feel that there is a need for change is driven by testing data.