From a presentation by Lori Kirsch-Goodwin and Hope Kirsch of Kirsch-Goodwin & Kirsch Education Law Firm for the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates:
A charter school is “a public school that provides free public elementary and/or secondary education to eligible students under a specific charter executed, pursuant to a state charter school law, by an authorized chartering agency/authority and that is designated by such authority to be a public charter school.”