Opinion ID: 2509859
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Heading Rank: 8

Heading: A Sense of Context: State Chartered Schools Are Less Than One Percent of Georgia's K-12 Public Education System

Text: Since these lawsuits were filed in 2009 and 2010, the Commission has approved several more commission charter schools and state charter schools converting to commission charter school status. See http://www.doe.k12.ga.us/ pea_charter.aspx. This long but important background discussion will end with a few numbers that are useful in evaluating the majority's claim that commission charter schools duplicate the efforts of local boards of education in establishing and maintaining general K-12 schools. Maj. Op. at 776. There are nearly 2,300 individual public schools in Georgia, serving nearly 1.7 million students. See http://app3.doe.k12.ga.us/ ows-bin/owa/fte_pack_enrollgrade.display_ proc;http://app3.doe.k12.ga.us/ows-bin/owa/ fte_pack_school_count.display_count. Thirteen years after the 1998 Act and three years after the 2008 Act, fewer than 1% of those schools are state-chartered pursuant to the General Assembly's special schools authority, and fewer than 1% of public school students attend those schools.