HSing is soaring in
HSing is soaring in NC, up 19% last year, according to this story .
Even as enrollment in traditional public schools also continued to increase, the growing popularity of home schools, charter schools and private schools whittled the Wake County Public Schools’ share of the county’s schoolchildren to 83.3 percent this past year, down from 90 percent in 1996 and 84.7 percent in 2000-01.
This seems to me a HUGE drop in the percentage of students educated at traditional public schools (as I understand the article, charter school students are lumped in with HSers and private school students). One more quote:
“All forms of nontraditional schooling are growing at an impressive rate,” said Mike McLaughlin, editor of North Carolina Insight (the magazine of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research). “But the public schools are chugging steadily along. They’re still educating 90 percent of the state’s children.”
Here’s a disparity. Does the 90% figure include charter school students in the public school figures? If not, the think tank is using 6-year-old data.