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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Mayor Bill Blasio touted gains in test scores by public school students that were announced Thursday, their peers in charter schools are still doing better: 63 percent of the charter students in ...

Once again, New York City charter-school students blew away their competition at regular public schools on state reading- and math-proficiency exams for grades 3-8. Per data compiled by the nonprofit ...

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 ...

Mayor de Blasio may identify as a progressive champion of the underprivileged, but the reality is that he’s blocking the surest path to the middle class by relegating the city’s poor to inferior ...

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 ...

Five big trends, from stagnant student performance to declining faith in colleges. By Dana Goldstein There was no shortage of news about American education in 2019. Presidential candidates debated ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — Nothing has defined and even driven the fractious national debate over education quite like this city and the transformation of its school system in the decade since Hurricane Katrina.

The national board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will vote this week on a resolution calling for a moratorium on charter schools. If they vote yes, they should also ...