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
The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis evaluates the health of the charter public school movement in key states across the country. Following the first report released in October 2014, this second edition measures movement growth, innovation, and quality, while this year doubling the number of quality measures. Due to these… Continue reading The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis
Enrollment in charter public schools has grown by 250,000 students in the 2015-16 school year, and more than 400 new charter public schools have opened their doors, according to, A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement: Schools, Students, and Management Organizations, 2015-16. The report also estimates that the total number of students currently attending charter… Continue reading A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement: Schools, Students, and Management Organizations, 2015-2016
2015 has proved to be another active year for charter public school legislation across the country. For starters, we saw significant activity regarding potential enabling legislation in several of the states without charter public school laws. Most notably, Alabama became the 43rd state to enact a charter school law. We saw a handful of states… Continue reading Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Law, 2016
This week, we released the 10th annual student enrollment share report, A Growing Movement: America’s Largest Charter School Communities, which identifies communities with the highest enrollment share and largest number of students attending charter public schools. When this report was first released in 2006, the national student enrollment in charter schools was one million; that number has… Continue reading Charter school growth: What changed in the last 10 years?
Since 2005, the National Alliance has advocated for high-quality public charter school laws. With the support of a working group with deep expertise in public charter school law, we released a model charter law in 2009 with 20 essential components focused on creating and supporting high-quality public charter schools. After we released the model charter law,… Continue reading Assessing the Increasing Strength of Charter Laws
According to a new report released by the National Alliance, more than 500 new public charter schools opened in the 2014-15 school year, and an estimated 348,000 additional students are attending public charter schools when compared with the previous school year. With the addition of new charter schools and students, there are now more than… Continue reading Estimated Number of Public Charter Schools & Students, Dashboard Data from 2014-2015
While legislative changes for public charter school funding and accountability in 2014 improved the ranking of several state laws in the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools’ sixth annual rankings report, our study shows the need for additional policy improvements across the nation, especially in the area of funding equity for public charter school students.… Continue reading Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws, 2015
This report lists the top 25 congressional districts by number of charter school students and schools. The reports findings show that within the 435 congressional districts in the United States, 67 districts have more than 10,000 students enrolled in public charter schools and 102 districts have 20 or more public charter schools.
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