A study of charter schools in Massachusetts shows charter students in the state are significantly more likely to enroll in a four-year college and earn a degree compared with their noncharter peers, ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Indiana. After listening to nearly two hours of public comment in a statehouse hearing room, GOP Sen. Chris Garten’s support for more funding for ...

A $490-million proposal backed by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to enroll half of the city’s students in charter schools will get a test this week when the Los Angeles Board of Education ...

A new study of charter schools in Massachusetts has identified strikingly positive academic results. The paper, released last week through the National Bureau of Economic Research, finds that charter ...

Elementary and high school students enrolled in charter schools in California made greater gains on standardized tests than students attending traditional campuses between 1999 and 2001 but still have ...

Fielding phone calls from parents asking about enrollment is part of everyday business for schools, but for some charter schools, the person on the other end of the line may only be posing as a parent ...

Four charter schools made Los Angeles Unified’s list of top scoring schools based on results released this week from the new Common Core-based standardized tests. Canyon Charter Elementary School in ...

The latest progress reports for public schools are one more sign that New York City’s charter schools are making exceptional gains with their students. Nearly half of charters got the top grade of A, ...

More than three million students across California traded in pencils for computers to take their standardized tests last school year. You might have read about the statewide results of the California ...

Education reform critics will sometimes argue that high-performing charters are only improving student test scores by teaching to the test. There is no actual improvement in human capital, it is ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A rarely applied experiment in education enabling companies to host taxpayer-funded charter schools for their employees’ children may be about to spread. Florida is the only state ...

We’ll know by the end of September if Mayor de Blasio really means to make peace with the charter-school movement, its leaders announced Monday: Will the Department of Education grant charters’ 27 ...