WALTER MYERS OPINION: TACKLING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CHARTER SCHOOLSFrom Florida Daily September 12, 2022 Since their humble beginnings in 1992, with City Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, charter schools have expanded to forty-four other states as well as the District of Columbia, and they now enroll well over 3.4 million students – roughly eight percent of all students nationwide. But while charter schools have been around for thirty years, many Americans remain unfamiliar with or confused about the basic concept. READ MORE |