On The Charter School Front Fed up with waiting for slow-moving bureaucracies to improve public education, parents and teachers in some communities are organizing charter schools and private schools to improve student performance. The Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Independent Education estimates there are 390 such schools nationwide, teaching 70,000 to 80,000 students. Most of the schools are small, with 50 to 400 students.
Blacks provide much of the impetus behind the charter school movement.