There's an ongoing debate as to whether a public or private education is best for children. Each type obviously has its own appeal; public schooling is free of charge and is available to all children and young adults, and private school has the notoriety of having better resources for its students. Along with the positives each type of schooling holds, there are also negatives attached. Public schools have a negative image attached to them because of overcrowding and lack of funding; and private schools are known for being expensive and have the sense of entitlement. By examining the pros and cons of both institutions, one can see that charter schools produce higher standardized testing numbers, get its students into better colleges, and later lead to those students having more successful careers, which proves that private schools are superior to public schools. Standardized state and national testing has been the golden standard in rating and the performance of teaching in schools for years, and is one of the biggest ways public schools gain funding from the state and federal governments. As with any performance test, there is a minimum requirement that must be reached in order for a public school to obtain funding, and if it not reached, the amount given is severely reduced. This is why public schools are so desperate for its students to do well on these tests: because its money depends on those scores. The hard part is to get these students to take the tests seriously. Many times at public schools, the demographic is set with students whose parents are working-class citizens that live from paycheck to paycheck, and the students aren't fully engaged in their studies. These students have a lack of interest of going above and beyond to do well on these tests because many of them have no aspiration to go to college and want to get right into the workforce. Students who attend private schools have a more to gain and lose with their performance on standardized tests. To start, their parents pay for them to attend the school, which usually costs thousands of dollars per year, and getting a poor score on those tests could jeopardize the students' place at that school. Also, students who attend private schools usually have very high aspirations to attend a well-known, big name, university, and those test scores will affect those students' chances of being accepted to those universities. With the stakes being so high to succeed, private schools outperform public schools in standardized testing. "Private schools do deliver higher reading and math scores than public schools." (Claudio, 2006) Also, high testing scores from students at a private school is almost a double-edged sword; when test scores go up, the name of the school gets bigger, which also drives up the cost of tuition. High test scores aren't just a product of students wanting to do well, but also what is given to the students: the resources to success. Private schools require each student to pay tui