Demand for charter schools increases: 17,000 on Texas wait list

Ed News carries this report featuring an interview with Brooke Dollens Terry is an education policy analyst at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.  It includes this Q&A:

1) Brooke, in a recent public policy paper, you seem to indicate that the demand for charter schools is going to increase fairly substantially in the future. What led you to this conclusion?

Last year, nearly 17,000 students were on a waiting list to attend a public charter school in Texas. We expect that number to increase as the last five charters will most likely be handed out by the state this fall and Texas will hit the legislative cap limiting the number of open-enrollment charters to 215.