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Charter School Finance By Yilan Shen and Alexander Berger February 2011. C. harter schools are growing rapidly nationwide. Since the first Charter School law passed in Minnesota in 1991, forty states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing the publicly funded, private- Charter Schools in the states ly managed and semi-autonomous schools of choice. Charter schools now educate more than 3 percent of all public School students, and the proportion Charter schools are publicly funded, of students enrolled continues to increase at more than 10 percent a privately managed and semi-auton- omous schools of choice. They do not charge tuition. They must hold As with traditional public schools, funding for Charter schools varies signifi- to the same academic accountability cantly across states and The central question in most debates about measures as traditional schools. They Charter School funding is the level of funding.

National Conference of State Legislatures 1 C harter schools are growing rapidly nationwide. Since the first charter school law passed in …

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