America's Private Public Schools

Janie Scull & Michael Petrilli:

This new analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute finds that more than 1.7 million American children attend what we've dubbed "private public schools" -- public schools that serve virtually no poor students. In some metropolitan areas, as many as one in six public-school students -- and one in four white youngsters -- attends such schools, of which the U.S. has about 2,800. Read on to see whether there's one in your neighborhood.

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Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 19, 2010 1:03 AM
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