Gulen Charter Schools myth: Charter schools vs Public Schools

Gulen Charter Schools myth: Charter schools vs Public Schools. In 2006, there were 98,793 public schools in the United States. They are spread throughout, with numbers ranging from a are low of 234 public schools in Delaware to 10,038 in California. Of these 98,793, a total of 88,959 - or a bit over 90% - what the United States Department of Education (USDOE) refers to as "Regular" public schools: the neighborhood-based schools that are mandated to accept all children that live in the area. The regular public schools offer education at several standard levels, referred to as primary, middle, and high schools. It is important to note that these levels are open to some interpretation, as different schools are configured differently. * Primary includes prekindergarten, when it is offered, and may go as high as grade 8. For example, there are a number of K-8 schools. * Middle may have any grade from 4 to 7 as its lowest grade, and its highest grade may be from 4 to 9. Most typical are middle schools with grades 6-8 and 7-8. * High may have any grade from 7 to 12 as its lowest grade, but 12 is the highest grade. * Other is used for any configuration that does not fit that categorization, including ungraded schools. In 2006, there were 52,178 regular primary schools, 16,227 regular middle schools, 15,663 regular high schools, and 3,551 regular other schools. This adds up to 87,619 regular public schools. This doesn't match the total of 88,959 regular public schools in the other table, and the USDOE offers no explanation. http://www.educationbug.org/a/public-schools-vs--charter-schools.html Charter schools exist in 40 states and the District of Columbia. Ten states have no charter school law. They are: Alabama, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and West Virginia. Of these, Alabama, Kentucky, and Maine report having magnet schools. The first charter school opened in St. Paul, Minnesota•the first state to have a charter school law - in 1992. The 4,132 charter schools in the United States in 2006 were educating 1,157,359 students, over 2% of all public school students. The five states with the greatest number of charter schools in 2006 were, in order from greatest to least: California, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and Ohio. Twenty-nine states that have charter schools have fewer than 100 of them. The lowest number of charter schools in a state that did have them was 1 in Mississippi. In 2008, there were more than 4,500 charter schools serving over 1.3 million students. As you can see it is clear that successful charter schools are not Gulen charter schools.