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Friday, October 11, 2013

This Week In Education: Update: Only A Third Of Co-Located Charters Pay District Rent

This Week In Education: Update: Only A Third Of Co-Located Charters Pay District Rent:

Update: Only A Third Of Co-Located Charters Pay District Rent

For charter schools operating in buildings owned by school districts only about a third are paying some sort of facility costs nationally, says NAPCS. (Forty-two percent pay nothing.)  Here's the breakdown:
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This is from NAPCS, a breakout of data from its survey of charter schools nationally.  It's a followup to the argument in NYC over the Bloomberg administration's no-rent charter school co-location policy.  
Yesterday, NAPCS told me that only about 25 percent of charters nationally are located in district buildings, though obviously that varies widely from district to district (based in part on facility payments