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NC Charter School Facts & Figures - Jan 2006 version

•         1996 – passage of NC Charter School Legislation
•           100 – NC Legislative imposed limit on number of  NC charter schools
•             97 – number of  NC charter schools currently in operation
•               1 – number of  new charter schools opening in June of 2006

North Carolina

•      27,167 – number of NC public charter school students
• 1,349,062 – number of NC public non-charter school students
•               2 – percentage of NC students that attend public charter schools
•             10 – largest NC school district if charter school students were combined

Durham/Durham County

•              7 – number of  charter schools in Durham County
•       1,872 – number of Durham County charter school students
•              6 - %age of Durham students that attend Durham public charter schools

Charlotte/Mecklenburg County

•              9 – number of  charter schools in Mecklenburg County
•       2,894 – number of Mecklenburg charter school students
•           2.4 - %age of Mecklenburg students that attend Mecklenburg charter schools

Greensboro/Guilford County

•              4 – number of  charter schools in Guilford County
•       1,439 – number of Guilford County charter school students
•              2 - %age of Guilford students that attend Guilford public charter schools

Raleigh/Wake County

•            14 – number of  charter schools in Wake County
•       4,926 – number of Wake County charter school students
•              4 - %age of Wake students that attend Wake public charter schools

NC Dollars

•    $1,000 – per child per year amount Self-Help Bank estimates that charter school   students save NC tax payers  (no capital funds for charter schools)
•      $100 – per child per year amount of projected revenues generated by the NC Educational lottery allocated to K-12 public education

January 18, Press Release

Location of Other Press Conferences

Fordham Foundation Charter Funding Study