The more than 4,830 kids on waiting lists in Santa Clara County alone, with an estimated 91,000 on waiting
lists for charter schools across the state, is a powerful testament to the demand for the options, flexibility and innovation that charters offers to students, and in particular to students who need it the most.
For charter schools across the state, the news has been relentlessly bad in recent months: A Western Massachusetts principal fired after a drug arrest.