ABSTRACT The central argument of the article is that charter schools operate as a mechanism to circumvent the institutional constraints imposed on the public manager and thus restore the ‘market’ equilibrium in which all students have the same purchasing power. This changes the mechanisms of hiring and allocating teachers, making the system more equitable and, under certain conditions, improving students’ performance. The ‘market’ mechanism works to equalize the performance of different types of schools and, therefore, the difference in test scores between charters and traditional public schools may not be a good criterion for evaluating the impact of the charter schools.

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特许学校，公共教育中的公平与效率

摘要文章的中心论点是，特许学校是一种机制，可以规避对公共管理者施加的制度约束，从而恢复所有学生具有相同购买力的“市场”平衡。这改变了教师的聘用和分配机制，使系统更加公平，并在一定条件下提高了学生的表现。“市场”机制旨在平衡不同类型学校的表现，因此，特许学校与传统公立学校之间考试成绩的差异可能不是评估特许学校影响的良好标准。