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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of charter schools in Massachusetts has identified strikingly positive academic results. The paper, released last week ...