As district-run public schools lose enrollment -- 1.5 million students since 2019 -- charter schools are adding students, according to a report by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, writes Debbie Veney. Charter enrollment grew by more than 300,000 students, an increase of 9 percent, from 2019-20 to 2022-23.
Most of the students who left district schools have opted out of public education, choosing homeschooling, microschools and private schools.
Charter enrollment gains were driven by a surge in Latino students. District schools primarily lost white students.
In a 2022 survey, "parents chose to send their children to public charter schools because they provided a higher-quality instruction (54%), smaller school and class sizes (47%) and better safety (47%) than district schools," write Veney. Eighty-six percent of parents said they want "options for tfor their children other than their assigned district school."
Hispanic student numbers are surging in charter schools? They must be racists, or something.
The sarcasm light is now /off .