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Charter schools part I: Thirteen years into the charter school experiment
- 10-13-2011
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By Ida Lieszkovszky/NPR
In 1998, Ohio
opened its first 15 charter schools. There are now more than 300, and they’re
enrolling more than 100,000 primary and secondary students. Ohio is paying upwards of $500,000,000 to
support those schools. But as charter schools have grown, so have divisions
between them and traditional public schools. Thirteen years ago, Ohio lawmakers
embraced on a massive educational experiment called charter schools. They
picked Toledo as the pilot city; a guinea pig to test a quick cure for what
many saw as the state’s ailing public education system. Charter schools
technically are public schools. They are free, and open to everyone. Because of
the way Ohio’s charter school laws developed, they are mostly limited to the
state’s urban areas. (more...)
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