According to Columbus Public Schools, 7,130 children living in the CPS district attended charter schools in October 2005—more than double the district’s 2003 charter school enrollment, and up from 1,000 in 2000…

In the past two years alone, charter school enrollment in Ohio has ballooned from 33,704 to more than 62,000. Columbus children who attend charter schools are moving into those schools faster than in any other urban school district but Toledo