Charter politics: why some places have more students in charter schools and others have fewer.(research)

From: Education Next | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: Corcoran, Sean P.; Stoddard, Christiana | Copyright information

By most measures, the charter school reform movement has been remarkably successful. Since the first law authorizing charter schools was passed in Minnesota in 1991, 39 other states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have all adopted legislation supporting public charters. Today, more than 1.2 million U.S. school children attend more than 4,000 public charter schools.

But the success of the charter school movement has been as uneven as it has been widespread (see...

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