CPICS | Coalition of Public Independent Charter Schools | Advocacy

Empowering and advocating for public independent charter schools.

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Students, families, educators—indeed the entire country—need a national, independent, democratically organized group to advocate for independently managed, financially transparent, community oriented public charter schools as articulated in our Statement of Principles.

-- Resolution passed at the 1st Independent Charter School Symposium

68%

of all charter schools in the US are freestanding, independent
charter schools*

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Charter school leaders from across the country attended the first Independent Charter School Symposium in October 2017

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Charter school leaders and advocates formed a National Coordinating Committee to take back the conversation and move the charter movement forward

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