Janie Scull & Michael Petrilli:
This new analysis by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute finds that more than 1.7 million American children attend what we’ve dubbed ”private public schools” — public schools that serve virtually no poor students. In some metropolitan areas, as many as one in six public-school students — and one in four white youngsters — attends such schools, of which the U.S. has about 2,800. Read on to see whether there’s one in your neighborhood.