Charter schools and traditional K-12 schools are public schools, but charter schools are held to different standards and are less accountable for their use of public funds. What would you do to correct this situation? (Question from Utahans For Public Schools)

Utah state cod 53A-1a-507(4)(a) states “that a charter school shall make the same annual reports required of other public schools under this title, including an annual financial audit report.” In addition to the reporting required of all public schools according to 53A-1a-507(5)(a) “A charter school shall be accountable to the charter school’s authorizer for performance as provided in the school’s charter.”  

Since it is clear in Utah code that charter schools are not only held to the accountability standards of traditional schools, but also they are accountable to their charter authorizer that charter schools are more accountable for their use of public funds.  The only correction I see of this situation is more education to the general public of the purpose and accountability of charter schools according to state statue.