Much greater than expected: 2010-2011 Gulen charter school enrollment was 44,727
In August 2010, USA Today’s Greg Toppo wrote that Gulen movement-associated charter schools“educate as many as 35,000 students — taken together they'd make up the largest charter school network in the USA — and have imported thousands of Turkish educators over the past decade.”
At long last, the actual enrollment for the 2010-2011 school year has been tallied. The total is44,727, nearly 10,000 students greater than the figure suggested by USA Today.
It is important to note that eleven new charter schools were added