History of IDEA
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Report documents charter school growth
- 10-20-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
Six school districts across the country now have at least 30 percent of their public school students enrolled in charter schools — with Washington D.C. at No. 2 on the list. And 18 systems have more than 20 percent of their students attending charters, according to a new report. The charter demographics report, released by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, lists Los Angeles as topping the list (see below) of districts with the highest number of charter school students — 79,385 (which was 12,576 more this school year than last). If those students were in a single school system, it would be in the top 45 of the largest U.S. school districts. The growing number of charter school students across the country underscores the popularity among policy makers and school reformers of these institutions as a key lever of school reform. (more...)
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