Dayton-area charter schools posted mainly low grades on the state report card last week, but for the second year in a row, a narrow majority of them increased their test scores from the previous year.

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 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, ...

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 ...

School choice and charter school advocates increasingly contend test scores provide a limited snapshot of a school’s effectiveness, maintaining other factors may be more telling, including graduation ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

BelovED charter school is getting a "partner" school next year, officials said. Former Jersey City Mayor Bret Schundler is photographed at Beloved Community Charter School in Jersey City on Tuesday, ...