Ex-charter students swell St. Louis, KC enrollment
HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press
Updated 11:08 a.m., Saturday, August 18, 2012

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Enrollment has swelled in unaccredited St. Louis and Kansas City public schools as about 5,000 students from shuttered charter schools find a new place to get an education.

But when classes began Monday, the St. Louis district had 20,029 students, up about 6 percent from last year's first-day enrollment of 18,841. And in Kansas City, the district's first day count was nearly 1,000 students higher than last year, and officials projected that K-12 enrollment will hit 18,200, up about 15 percent from last year's 15,826 students.
Several academically struggling charter schools that had been run by Virginia-based
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