National charter school enrollment now tops two million students
As Georgia has shown, there is a great deal of parental interest in charter schools. The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools announced today enrollment in charter schools, which are public schools that operate with autonomy in exchange for contractual performance goals, has surpassed two million. (There are 46 million students in the public k-12 system.)
Here is the release from the alliance:
Over 500 new public charter schools opened their doors in the 2011-12 school year, an estimated increase of 200,000 students. This year marks the largest single–year increase ever recorded in terms of the number of additional students attending charters.
There are now approximately 5,600 public charter schools enrolling what is estimated to be more than two million students nationwide. The numbers equate to a 13 percent growth in