{"id":221,"date":"2002-07-31T10:07:11","date_gmt":"2002-07-31T10:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=221"},"modified":"2002-07-31T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2002-07-31T10:07:11","slug":"hsing-is-soaring-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=221","title":{"rendered":"HSing is soaring in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HSing is soaring in NC, up 19% last year, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-observer.com\/front\/story\/1594002p-1621785c.html\">this story <\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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&#8217; share of the county&#8217;s schoolchildren to 83.3 percent this past year, down from 90 percent in 1996 and 84.7 percent in 2000-01.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;All forms of nontraditional schooling are growing at an impressive rate,&#8221; said Mike McLaughlin, editor of North Carolina Insight (the magazine of the N.C. Center for Public Policy Research). &#8220;But the public schools are chugging steadily along. They&#8217;re still educating 90 percent of the state&#8217;s children.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217; share of the county&#8217;s schoolchildren to 83.3 percent this past year, down from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}