What is the difference between a charter school and a chartered school?
A chartered school is any nonpublic school formed by the Board of Regents as an education corporation, but which operates independently under general oversight of the Board of Regents and the Commissioner of Education. A charter school is a public school authorized to operate on the basis of an approved charter, which is a document describing the conditions under which the school was approved to operate and the expectations it will have to meet in order to continue to be authorized. However, like a chartered nonpublic school, a charter school will be formed by the Regents as an education corporation.
