NYC Public School Parents: Yes, Virginia, charter school co-locations do indeed cause more overcrowding

NYC Public School Parents: Yes, Virginia, charter school co-locations do indeed cause more overcrowding:

Yes, Virginia, charter school co-locations do indeed cause more overcrowding

by Leonie Haimson

Protesters against a charter co-location credit: Daily News

Today’s report from the NYC Charter Center claims that buildings where charter schools are co-located tend to be less overcrowded than average school buildings.   Our analysis of the Education Impact Statements (EIS’s) of charter co-location proposals considered by thePanel for Educational Policy between December 2010 and March 2012finds that of the 79 charter school co-locations proposed by DOE, 22 of them, or nearly 30 percent, were projected to push the building to 100 percent utilization or more during the following year or soon thereafter.  

Moreover, in 47 of these proposals, or nearly 60 percent, the EIS projected that the charter