The Education Exchange: Growing Enrollment and Public Support for Charter Schools Can’t Break Through Partisan Divide

Once a bipartisan issue, charters now separate Democratic and Republican party leaders

Photo of Michael HendersonMichael Henderson, associate professor at Louisiana State University, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss Henderson’s paper, “Blowback or Buy-In: Public Opinion in Response to Charter School Penetration,” which was presented at “School Choice: Impacts on Participants, Non-Participants, Educators, and Entrepreneurs,” a conference hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Education Policy and Governance on May 7 and 8, 2026.

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