Preparing For Change.(Column)
American School & University, March, 2004
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Byline: JAMES E. RYDEEN
The first charter school in the nation, City Academy, opened in St. Paul, Minn., in 1992 with 90 students. Ten years later, 575,000 students were attending 2,700 U.S. charter schools.
Some of these schools are in new facilities, but most are in nontraditional settings such as vacant commercial buildings, office buildings or churches. Those circumstances create planning and design challenges.
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Each state has facility requirements or guidelines for designing a public school, but charter schools do not have to follow these guidelines. The ...
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