Charter school report was wrong
The growth of charter schools in San Diego was greatly exaggerated in a report issued three months ago by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, according to the organization that issued a corrected study on Wednesday.
The group released a report in December claiming that the San Diego Unified School District had a 35 percent increase in charter school enrollment — giving it the designation of having second-highest growth in the nation — in the 2012-13 academic year.
In fact, charter school attendance in San Diego Unified increased by 7 percent, the alliance now says.
The report received widespread coverage by the media, including a front-page article in U-T San Diego.
Katherine Bathgate, senior communications manager at the National Alliance, apologized for the error, which she attributed to “a miscounting of charter schools within the district between two years.”
Bathgate said researchers failed to count three independent-study
