In the Bronx, New York, schools come in all shapes and sizes. The Harriet Tubman Charter School is a converted supermarket and the KIPP (Knowledge Is Power Programme) Academy resides on one floor of an office block.
On the surface, these urban schools are a remote cry from the UK education system.
But, if the Conservatives get their way, this could be about to change.
Charter schools are independent education providers, which receive public money to educate children in disadvantaged areas, where state schools have failed in the past. KIPP schools come under this banner.
There are clear parallels between these schools and the UK's academies programme. But, as teachers and pupils from Darwen Aldridge Community Academy in Lancashire discovered on a visit to New York, their approach is very different.
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