New Trends Emerge In U.S. Schooling Amidst Pandemic's Second School Year

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Virtual charter schools, able to endure the pandemic because online learning was already the norm, experienced a surge in enrollment and are now jam-packed.
59% : These include new Education Savings Accounts and scholarship programs, expanded charter schools, and funding for parent pods.
55% : This past year, thousands of families also chose to move to charter schools.
49% : Such long-held opposition to virtual charter schools has influenced the adoption of policies banning their expansion during and even post-Covid in many places, such as California, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Oregon, despite their becoming a lifeline for hundreds of thousands of students whose traditional schools failed to open or deliver quality remote education.
47% : After a year in which students, families and the general public have experienced firsthand the deficiencies of a big system, attitudes toward public education, and the way its been managed throughout the pandemic, are shifting.

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