Oct 2, 2019, 1:56 PM
(From The 74) A new federal report from the National Center for Education Statistics offers crucial statistics about changes in enrollment in traditional public schools, charters and private schools, as well as homeschooling trends, over the past two decades. Notably, the report found that charter school enrollment has grown rapidly during the study period, a 571% increase from fall 2000 to fall 2016.
Yet, despite a fivefold increase in the charter sector, the report found no meaningful difference in achievement between charters and traditional public schools. Meanwhile, parents of children in charter and magnet schools were also more likely to report being “very satisfied” than those with children in assigned public schools, though the gap was not as large between the two categories of public school as between the gap between private and public schools.
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