The charter school sector grew to more than 6,800 schools serving nearly 3 million students across forty states and DC by 2015–16¶
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q2 i? As of the 2015–2016 school year, more than 6,800 charter schools served nearly 3 million students in forty states and the District of Columbia. → Philip M. Gleason 2016
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Philip M. Gleason 2016¶
Philip M. Gleason. (2016). What's the Secret Ingredient? Searching for Policies and Practices that Make Charter Schools Successful. Working Paper 47. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research. https://www.mathematica.org/publications/whats-the-secret-ingredient-searching-for-policies-and-practices-that-make-charter-schools doi:10.1080/15582159.2017.1395620
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The paper's background section reports sector scale: "more than 6,800 charter schools served nearly 3 million students in forty states and the District of Columbia" as of 2015–2016, with steady growth since the first charter school opened in 1992.
"As of the 2015–2016 school year, more than 6,800 charter schools served nearly 3 million students in forty states and the District of Columbia."
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Related Claims¶
- The charter-school sector has grown to nearly 7,000 schools serving nearly 3 million students since 1992 — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
- 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 — related
- One-size-fits-all school systems under-serve nearly all of their students — related
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The charter school sector grew to more than 6,800 schools serving nearly 3 million students across forty states and DC by 2015–16 |
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The charter school sector grew to more than 6,800 schools serving nearly 3 million students across forty states and DC by 2015–16 |
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