Charter Survey: Are Caps Pinching?

Some interesting new data in the annual charter school survey released today by the Center for Education Reform. Charter caps and moratoria are beginning to bite; what’s been double-digit growth for the last decade dropped by two percent this school year.  Only about 30% of charters own their own facilities. And of the 38% of schools that reported non-participation in the Title I program, only 4% said it was due to a lack of eligible students - -which gives some credence to the idea that even with a charter population that’s 54% low-income, that may be a big undercount due to reliance on Title I as the poverty criterion.  Lots to mull over, hash out, and debate in the report, available here.

BTW, for more on the caps issue, see the Alliance’s issue brief.