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Hidden Rival to Charter Schools

Washington Post

Charters have been growing rapidly. They enroll more than two million students. Research papers on them proliferate. Editorials worry over what this exodus of kids and their involved parents is doing to regular public schools. What other fast-growing education alternative also now enrolls more than two million students? It's home-schooling.

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