Table 4.3. Charter school legislation and number and type of charter schools operating, by state: 2015–16 and 2017

Table 4.3. Charter school legislation and number and type of charter schools operating, by state: 2015–16 and 2017–18

State	Year charter law passed (2017–18)	Number of charter schools operating (2015–16)	State law allows full-time virtual charter schools (2017–18)¹
United States²	†	6,855	37

Alabama	2015	0	Yes
Alaska	1995	28	Yes
Arizona	1994	552	Yes
Arkansas	1995	65	Yes
California	1992	1,224	Yes

Colorado	1993	226	Yes
Connecticut	1996	24	Yes
Delaware	1995	28	No
District of Columbia	1996	109	Yes
Florida	1996	653	Yes

Georgia	1994	82	Yes
Hawaii	1994	34	Yes
Idaho	1996	54	Yes
Illinois	1996	64	Yes
Indiana	2001	88	Yes

Iowa	2002	3	Yes
Kansas	1994	10	Yes
Kentucky	2017	†	Yes
Louisiana	1995	138	Yes
Maine	2011	7	Yes

Maryland	2003	50	No
Massachusetts	1993	81	No
Michigan	1993	370	Yes
Minnesota	1991	216	Yes
Mississippi	2010	2	Yes

Missouri	1998	70	Yes
Montana	†	†	†
Nebraska	†	†	†
Nevada	1997	47	Yes
New Hampshire	1996	31	Yes

New Jersey	1995	89	No
New Mexico	1993	99	Yes
New York	1998	256	No
North Carolina	1996	158	Yes
North Dakota	†	†	†

Ohio	1997	373	Yes
Oklahoma	1999	45	Yes
Oregon	1999	126	Yes
Pennsylvania	1997	175	Yes
Rhode Island	1995	29	No

South Carolina	1996	68	Yes
South Dakota	†	†	†
Tennessee	2002	100	No
Texas	1995	702	Yes
Utah	1998	117	Yes

Vermont	†	†	†
Virginia	1998	7	No
Washington	2016	9	Yes
West Virginia	†	†	†
Wisconsin	1993	242	Yes
Wyoming	1995	4	Yes

† Not applicable.
¹A virtual school, or cyber school, is a school that delivers academic instruction via the Internet or computer network to students in locations other than a classroom supervised by a teacher who is physically present.
²The total reflects the number of "Yes" responses in the column.
SOURCE: National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Public Charter School Laws (2018), retrieved March 12, 2018 from https://www.publiccharters.org/sites/default/files/documents/2018-01/2018%20MEASURING%20UP%20TO%20THE%20MODEL%20Final_0.pdf and National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics 2017, retrieved June 1, 2018 from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_216.90.asp?current=yes. Data Source.