This is the 25th year that charter schools have been operating in the US, and new report says that, enrollment wise, they are doing better than ever. Hundreds of new charter schools have opened this year. However, a couple hundred have closed. And the head of a national charter school group says that’s fine with them.
Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll catch up with the charter school movement.
Then we’ll hear the second story of our series on Common Core in the south…and hear how officials are trying to calm the controversy over the standards. And we’ll also spend an academic minute looking at the sunny side of e-coli.
