D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools Celebrates National Charter Schools Week
WASHINGTON, May 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools: Who: Ramona H. Edelin, Ph.D., Executive Director of DCACPS and the woman who coined the phrase "African-American" twenty-five years ago.
Donald Hense, Chairman of Friendship Public Charter School- College Board Inspirations Award winning school.
What: National Charter Schools Week When: May 5-9, 2008 Where: Washington D.C.
Why: With the closing of several D.C. public schools in recent months, charter schools provide options to district students who would normally not have access to quality education. The district's charter schools serve predominantly the African-American community. More than 200 of the District's 234 public and charter schools are over 90 percent African American or Hispanic, according to a Brookings Institution study of racial patterns in school enrollment.
Nationally, public charter schools are growing - just 16 years after the first charter school opened in Minnesota, there are now almost 4,300 charter schools serving over 1.2 million children in 40 states and the District of Columbia.
The demand for enrollment into charter schools has increased. Currently hundreds of thousands of students across the nation remain on charter school waiting lists.
For more information visit:
http://www.dcpcsa.org/http://www.publiccharters.org/section/ncsw2008 DATASOURCE: D.C. Association of Chartered Public Schools CONTACT: Seleana Bines, +1-202-337-0566 x 120, , for DCACPS Web Site: http://www.dcpcsa.org/
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