Charter School Enrolment Numbers

Well, it's always been the case that a child at a charter school is funded the same, no more or less than a child at a state school. These figures show that it may be slightly less, and the reason for that is that every now and then a new programme or initiative is added on to the state school system and that money goes to state schools automatically, it doesn't always go to charter schools, so if anything there's a natural disadvantage that charter schools... schools get a little bit less nonetheless because they have the flexibility you know they can be shut down if they don't reach the attendance targets they can be shut down if they don't reach the academic achievement targets but but in return for that they get the flexibility to use that money their way and as a result you know not only are we seeing the numbers growing but attendance at charter schools is higher than state schools even though several charter schools schools were set up precisely for children who'd been basically not attending at all and there's some wonderful stories where they've really turned their lives around in just the last year and become regular attenders because they've seen something different.