Charter schools enrolling low number of poor students
Demographic imbalances between charter schools and traditional public schools have led experts to ask if charter schools are open to all students.
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Today: In Miami-Dade County, some charter schools serve a smaller share of poor and black students than nearby traditional public schools.
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BY KATHLEEN MCGRORY AND SCOTT HIAASEN
KMCGRORY@MIAMIHERALD.COM
The Charter School at Waterstone looms behind a manned guardhouse in an exclusive community in Homestead. With a palm-lined walkway leading to its cool-blue buildings, the school stands apart from the closest alternative: Campbell Drive K-8 Center, the 35-year-old traditional public school down the road.
The students are different, too.
At Waterstone, about 32 percent of students in 2010 qualified for free or reduced-price lunch
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