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Did you know?
- There are 692 charter schools operating in
2007-2008.
- Approximately 250,000 students are currently
enrolled in charter schools.
- 84 percent of operating charter schools
are start-up schools, and 16 percent are conversion schools.
- 78 percent of operating charter schools are site-based, and 22 percent
are nonclassroom-based or combination site-based and non site-based.
- The largest Public Charter Schools Grant Program was awarded to California for the 2004-07 grant cycle, resulting in approximately 250 new charter schools.
- Student achievement among educationally and economically
disadvantaged students in California public charter schools
is improving faster than in non-charter public schools, according
to the studies from the Hoover Institute at Stanford University
(2003), and the School of Education at California State University,
Los Angeles.
- Charter schools are public education choices
in 49 of the 58 counties in California.
- One in 20 schools in California is a
charter school; one in 50 students in California attends a charter
school. EdSource Report, June 2004
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