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Annual Enrollment Share Report Finds Charter School Enrollment Has Tripled Since Report First Issued

Washington, D.C.—A Growing Movement: America’s Largest Public Charter School Communities is the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ (National Alliance) twelfth annual report on charter school enrollment. Since the report’s first release in 2006, national charter school enrollment has tripled, growing from one million to more than three million students. When examined at a district level… Continue reading Annual Enrollment Share Report Finds Charter School Enrollment Has Tripled Since Report First Issued

A Growing Movement: America’s Largest Public Charter School Communities, Twelfth Edition

Over the past 12 years, public charter school enrollment has tripled in response to the growing demands for high-quality public school options. Charter schools currently serve more than 3 million students and there are now more than 200 school districts where 10 percent or more of their public school students attend charter schools. Read our… Continue reading A Growing Movement: America’s Largest Public Charter School Communities, Twelfth Edition

2017 State Legislative Session Highlights for Public Charter Schools

It’s been a historic year for public charter school policy across the country. Kentucky became the 44th state to enact a charter school law and a number of other state legislatures passed significant changes to ensure more equal access to funding and resources for public school students who attend charter schools. Read our 2017 State… Continue reading 2017 State Legislative Session Highlights for Public Charter Schools

Key Findings from CREDO’s CMO Study

This summer, the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) released their latest report on charter school networks and management organizations. CREDO’s study utilizes student-level data from 25 states and Washington D.C. to determine the average rate of math and reading growth for 240 Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) and 54 Vendor Operated School Networks (VOS… Continue reading Key Findings from CREDO’s CMO Study

How Charter Schools are Staffing to Meet Student Needs

Today the National Center for Education Statistics released a First Look at the characteristics of public schools in the U.S. using data gathered by the 2015-16 National Teachers and Principal Survey. This is a nationally representative survey that includes samples for both public charter and traditional public schools. And, like the two previous releases of… Continue reading How Charter Schools are Staffing to Meet Student Needs

2016 Annual Report

In 2016, we demonstrated that after 25 years, the charter school movement is accelerating progress for students and deepening its commitment to equity, autonomy, and innovation. Much of our progress over the past year is documented in this 2016 Annual Report. The National Alliance is honored to help lead this movement into the next quarter century… Continue reading 2016 Annual Report

Estimated Charter Public School Enrollment, 2016-17

For the first time, the number of students who attend charter public schools is estimated to have surpassed 3 million. This means that over 200,000 more children are attending charter schools this school year than attended last year and, given that the federal government estimates a total change in public school enrollment of just over… Continue reading Estimated Charter Public School Enrollment, 2016-17

A Growing Movement: Americas Largest Charter Public School Communities, Eleventh Edition

Charter school student enrollment has tripled to 2.9 million students over the past 11 years, according to the latest National Alliance report, A Growing Movement: Americas Largest Charter School Communities and Their Impact on Student Outcomes. Three in 10 students now attend a charter public school in 17 mostly urban school districts across the country.… Continue reading A Growing Movement: Americas Largest Charter Public School Communities, Eleventh Edition

Charter Accountability For District-Run Schools: Using ESSA to Create Contract-Based Accountability for Urban Public Education

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), gives states the opportunity to rethink their K-12 accountability systems. Gone are No Child Left Behind’s (NCLB) tight rules for assessing and intervening in schools and districts. This couldn’t come at a better time for urban schooling. Urban districts operate in a very different… Continue reading Charter Accountability For District-Run Schools: Using ESSA to Create Contract-Based Accountability for Urban Public Education

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