Among biggest cities, Philadelphia has most charter students
by David Limm on Nov 14 2012 Posted in Latest news
With nearly one in four city students in publicly-funded schools attending a charter, Philadelphia is among the top 20 cities in the country for charter market share, according to a report released this week.Philadelphia, though, is by far the largest city in the country with such a big proportion of students in charters. With more than 200,000 students, the Philadelphia's School District is nearly twice as large as the next biggest district in the top 20, Detroit, which has 113,000 students.
According to the report, compiled by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS), a nonprofit advocacy organization, 23 percent of students in Philadelphia, attended charters in 2011-12. That amounts to nearly 47,000