on a 4.5% drop in attendance at local area catholic schools.

on four schools that are going to be closing.

on larger classroom sizes may lead to more dropouts.

on the local school district developing new magnet school policy.

have come out together with a report looking at New York City kids that used a lottery to get into a charter school vrs the kids that used a lottery, but could not get into a charter school.

In the area of the schools they looked at had most of the population was either black or Hispanic. They found a school year a a charter school they looked averaged 192 says with a couple going over 200.

They found that over 90% of students were lotteried in were either black or Hispanic and over 90% had free or reduced lunch.

The found that students going to a charter school did perform better than students that did not.

on more private students going to public schools due to the recession.