Association President and CEO Jake Logan sat down with Chamber Business News to discuss the state of Arizona’s charter movement, proposed legislation at the State Legislature and his vision for school choice in the state.
Logan also shares some tidbits from his personal and professional life, including his early life in southern Arizona, his tenure on the Arizona State Board for Charter Schools and how he developed his passion for education and charter schools.
By Eric Berschback
There are 554 public charter schools in Arizona, and nearly 200,000 public charter school students – but which cities in Arizona have the most parents and students choosing charters? To find out, we combined the physical address of every school in Arizona with each school’s enrollment figures from ADE’s 2017-18 enrollment file. The result was a city-level view of just how many students and parents are opting for public charter schools.
Phoenix unsurprisingly leads the way in absolute public charter student enrollment. Its 48,000-plus public charter students represent about 25 percent of all public charter enrollment in the state, and 20 percent of all public school students who attend a school – district or charter – within Phoenix. The top 20 cities for absolute public charter school enrollment in the 2017-18 school year are shown in the following table:
