Questions 5-8 refer to the following passage.

Which of the following statements best summarizes the main point of the passage?

a. Charter schools, despite their merits, fail to overcome the long-standing problems in public education.

b. Recent studies have shown that charter schools have had a revolutionary effect on student achievement.

c. Freeing schools from some of the restrictions that govern them has caused a change in education since 1991.

d. Charter schools have created a whole new way of educating children that did not previously exist.

e. Assessments of charter schools’ performance have reinforced the position that rigid rules and regulations are stifling academic achievement.

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(5) It has frequently been argued that freeing schools from the rigid rules, regulations, and statutes that have traditionally fettered them Line would have a revolutionary effect on academic achievement. For instance, it has been sug- gested that schools embodying this idea could. develop more effective teaching methods that could then be replicated in other schools. Char- ter schools public schools that operate under (10) a contract, or "charter"-were given just such an opportunity beginning in 1991, when Minne- sota passed the first charter school law. At that time, many critics warned of deleterious rather than beneficial effects that such freewheeling (15) schools could have on the academic achieve- ment of students. Thus, while public opinion differed concerning the social desirability of charter schools, most agreed that there would be a pronounced effect.