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Are charter schools monopolizing public resources?

Are charter schools monopolizing public resources?:



Are charter schools monopolizing public resources?
April 24, 2014 at 6:24 PM EDT
Charter school enrollment has soared from about 300,000 a little more than a decade ago to nearly 2 million students nationwide. But the expansion of charter schools, whose public funding is supplemented with private donations, has created serious competition for limited resources and space. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters reports on the ongoing battle in New York.