The U.S. charter school sector has grown to more than 7,000 schools nationwide, prompting an active debate over charters' effects on the public school system and their regulation¶
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q2 i? As the number of charter schools expanded to more than 7,000 nationwide, an active debate arose over whether charter schools help or harm the public school system and over appropriate regulation of charter certification, operation, and expansion. → Philip Gleason 2019
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Philip Gleason 2019¶
Philip Gleason, Helen Ladd. (2019). Charter Schools and the Public Interest. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 38, issue 4. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/charter-schools-and-the-public-interest
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Descriptive framing statement from the publication's overview of the charter school movement over the past 30 years, reporting the sector scale of "more than 7,000 nationwide" and the resulting policy debate; no empirical analysis or effect size is presented on this page.
"As the number of charter schools has expanded to more than 7,000 nationwide, an active debate has arisen focused on the ways in which charter schools either help or harm the public school system and what should be the appropriate regulation of charter school certification, operation, and expansion."
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Related Claims¶
- The charter-school sector has grown to nearly 7,000 schools serving nearly 3 million students since 1992 — related
- The charter school sector grew to more than 6,800 schools serving nearly 3 million students across forty states and DC by 2015–16 — related
- Little evidence that Philadelphia charter schools help or harm achievement of students in nearby district schools — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Demand for Rhode Island charter seats surged, with 30,000 applications submitted for 2,500 available seats in 2024–2025 — related
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The U.S. charter school sector has grown to more than 7,000 schools nationwide, prompting an active debate over charters' effects on the public school system and their regulation |
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