As the public charter schools movement approaches the 20 year anniversary of the opening of the first charter school, the sector continues to grow. Over 500 new public charter schools opened their doors for the 2011-12 school year. Compared with the 2010-11 school year, an estimated additional 200,000 students are attending public charter schools in… Continue reading Estimated Number of Public Charter Schools & Students, Dashboard Data from 2011-2012
Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) and Education Management Organizations (EMOs) play an important part in the scalability of the charter school movement by enabling the replication of models that work, creating economies of scale, encouraging collaboration between similar schools, and building support structures for schools. CMOs are nonprofit entities that manage two or more charter schools… Continue reading CMO and EMO Public Charter Schools: Dashboard Data from 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10
Given this steady growth of the charter school population, and its concentration in cities, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) anticipated a need for correspondent growth and change of the network of charter support organizations (CSOs). NAPCS works closely with CSOs who provide advocacy and technical support services to charter schools. Most of… Continue reading The Promise of Citywide Charter Strategies
Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Public Charter School Laws analyzes the country’s 41 state charter laws and scores how well each supports charter school quality and growth based on the 20 essential components from the NAPCS’s model charter school law. This report captures state legislation affecting the charter school movement in… Continue reading Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws, 2011
Charter schools have never had the opportunity we have now. In addition to ongoing support from the U.S. Department of Education and Obama Administration, a number of films focused on Americas education crisis have brought national attention to the promise of charter schools. But where in America are charter schools growing most? Annually, the National… Continue reading A Growing Movement: Americas Largest Charter School Communities, Fifth Edition
Public charter schools presence in K-12 schooling continues to grow. In fact, charters now enroll more than one in five public school students (22%) in 14 communities including major cities like Detroit, St. Louis, and Kansas City. Demand remains strongest in urban areas and as a result, charter market share is growing rapidly in cities… Continue reading Top Ten Charter Communities by Market Share: 4th Annual Edition
With the start of the 2009-10 academic year, over 400 new public charter schools will open their doors to students and more than 170,000 new students will be attending public charter schools. With the addition of the new charter schools and students, there are now approximately 4,900 public charter schools enrolling over 1.5 million students… Continue reading Number of Public Charter Schools & Student, Dashboard Data from 2009-2010
Since 2005, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools has released an annual “Dashboard” of leading statistical indicators about the growth and quality of public charter schools. This 2009 edition of the Dashboard makes four major improvements over previous releases. It includes a more than 10-fold increase in the amount of the data, two important… Continue reading 2009 Public Charter School Dashboard
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools today released its third annual report on public charter school enrollment in the largest communities based on market share. A record 12 communities have at least 20% of their public school students enrolled in public charter schools, double the number from just two years ago. Additionally, 64 communities… Continue reading 2008 Top 10 Charter Communities by Market Share
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