A newspaper article over the weekend contained an interactive look at the growth in charter schools in Pennsylvania. A map included in the data showed that 52% of the state’s charters are located in Philadelphia, and pointed out that “charter school enrollment in Pennsylvania, as nationally, is overwhelmingly urban”.
Outside of Centre County there is very little presence of charters in the northern tier of Pennsylvania. Of course, students in areas without brick and mortar charters can access cyber charter options.
Another article from last week looks at the presence of charter laws in states that have over 40% of their population living in rural areas as defined by the Census. Only three of those states have charter school laws currently.
