Public Schools Losing Favor?
An article in The Miami Herald reports that South Florida public school enrollment dropped this year due to a rise in charter school popularity.
Broward and Miami-Dade counties has experienced a loss of more than 4,000 students to the 109 charter schools in the area. Charter schools in Miami-Dade saw an increase of 6,341 students from last year, totaling 41,488 students this year.
With capacity and quality issues at the helm of the nation’s education policy debate, charter schools have an opportunity to fill necessary gaps in the education system. However, what does the proliferation of these privately run schools mean for the public school system?
Read the whole story here.
Will this charter school competition spur drastic changes in public schools? Will school boards attempt to work cooperatively with charter schools? Are there other areas experiencing the same situation? What do you think?
