The Arizona Charter Schools Association is proud to commemorate the 25th anniversary of charter schools with a series of blogs examining how charter schools have influenced the state’s education landscape. After a quarter of a century, public charter schools in Arizona are no longer perceived as just a fad: they continue to enjoy popularity with parents and students.
Enrollment in Arizona’s public charter schools has steadily increased since their inception. In fact, new enrollment growth in the state’s public schools is primarily limited to the charter sector these days, with traditional school districts having reached their peak enrollment in 2008 and holding steady or declining only slightly ever since.
Most likely in response to the market pressure of innovative charter schools and acknowledging that parents now have so many more options within the educational marketplace, traditional suburban school districts have started to differentiate academic delivery with innovative educational models that provide the kind of specialty instruction and boutique programming that have always been associated with charter schools.
Click here to read more on how charter schools have influenced traditional school districts to diversity their academic offerings.
