3 ways Charters Reform and Improve Our Schools

City Academy Secondary school in St. Paul, Minnesota, will celebrate a milestone in September: twenty-five years when the nation’s first charter school. During that quarter century, charter school growth has long been remarkable. Today, forty-four states and Washington, D.C. contain some seven thousand of the independently operated public schools, serving nearly 3 million students. Remarkably, charters account for the entire increase in U.S. K