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CHARTER SCHOOLS: The Ultimate Handbook for Parents

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This book is extremely helpul in learning about charter schools! It's really Charter Schools 101! Not only does it provide basic information, it also provides worksheets for parents to do their own comparisons between schools, websites at the end of various chapters so parents can further research and investigate, and charter school links and resources all while being easy to read with humor sprinkled in here and there. A must read for parents or anyone else who wants to know about charter schools.

So far only half way thru the book but it's very good for those who are thinking of sending their children to a charter school but know nothing about them yet. Glad I bought it.

As the parent of a young son who is close to entering elementary school, I found Karin Piper's book extremely helpful. We have been torn between public, private or a charter school, and this book helped clear-up a lot of the confusion we had about charter schools. It also prompted us to tour and interview a charter school in our area, and we are so glad we did! It will be the perfect place for our son when he starts school next year.

I've written one book about our young generation, "Millennials Incorporated", and one for them about how to be an effective young leader at work, "Millennials Into Leadership". So, aside from being a parent myself, I'm always interested to know about how education is progressing to support our next generation. And Karin's book provided great info about education in general, too (not just about Charter Schools).

If you are at the point of considering school choices for your own children; if you want to know more about charter schools, then this is the book for you! Mrs. Piper has written a fabulously entertaining and thorough resource about charter schools, for parents. There are plenty of books on the market about charter schools, but none, that I have found, written in a friendly voice specifically for parents.

The author draws on her own knowledge as well as other parents, founders, and leaders of charter schools. The story is told from multiple perspectives, answering all the questions you might have.

This book is a long-overdue addition to the conversation on charter schools.