Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Hottest Trends in Educational Choice

I tried the other day on the back of a napkin with a friend who is also involved in education to try to summarize the current K12 educational choices and trends.

We have each read many reports on many pieces of the puzzle but at the end of the day, these are our impressions of what the nationwide statistics look like at the start of 2009. Would anyone care to share their data or opinions?

The red hot growth trend in K12 education is the public virtual schools which are approaching 1% of the K12 population. It is growing at a rate of about 40% annually.

Three growth trends that had their moment as the hot growth trends but which are just simmering at this point:

Charter schools - 1% of the K12 population growing 20% annually
Homeschooling - 2% of the K12 population growing 20% annually
Magnet schools - 1% of the K12 population growing 20% annually

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