From Forbes.com " The Montessori Comeback ," March 27, 2019. " Yale University’s Dr. Mira Debs researches public Montessori programs and compiled a dataset of these freestanding schools . Nearly 100% are schools of choice that use a lottery system to determine which students get in. And of the 168 freestanding public Montessori schools opened between 2000 and 2015, 82% were public charter schools." View list.