Charter schools across the United States took in hundreds of thousands of new students, as families sought alternatives to public schools during the first full school year of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report reveals. Publicly funded, privately managed charters schools in 39 states saw an additional 240,000 students during the 2020-2021 school year, according to the latest “Voting with Their Foot” report (pdf) by the pro-school choice organization National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS). That translates to a 7 percent growth—the highest they’ve seen in half a decade. Of the 42 states covered in the report, only Illinois, Iowa and Wyoming saw modest decreases in charter enrollment. Oklahoma (35,751), Texas (29,030), and Pennsylvania (22,696) top the list of states with the highest number of new students. In terms of percentages of increase in charter enrollment, the top three states are Oklahoma (78 percent), Alabama (65 percent), and Idaho …
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