Families want and need new charter schools, write a bipartisan group of mayors in an open letter to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona....

Indianapolis charter students are dramatically outperforming similar students in district-run schools, concludes a new study by Stanford...

At IDEA McAllen College Prep, a charter school near the Mexican border, 77 percent of students come from low-income families and nearly...

The Biden administration has abandoned the Obama legacy on charter schools and chosen teachers’ unions over students, writes Jonathan...

Public support for raising teacher pay is climbing, reports the 2018 Education Next survey. Support for increasing teacher pay was...

North Carolina public schools are losing students to charter schools, private schools and homeschooling, reports T. Keung Hui in the...

“After Katrina’s devastation, New Orleans embarked on the the most ambitious education overhaul in modern America,” writes David...

With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...

New York City’s elite high schools are filled with Asian-American students — many from low-income, immigrant families — who’ve aced the...

Charter support, which dropped last year, is rebounding, especially among blacks and Republicans, according to University of Southern...

Lane Wright  and his wife bought a home in a racially and economically diverse neighborhood in Tallahassee, he writes on Education Post....

Two Chicago charter schools are closing the achievement gap for low-income, black children, according to a new book, The Ambitious...

Locke High has improved in its 10 years as a Green Dot charter school. But it remains a very low-performing school, report Kyle Stokes...

Operating under a “cloud of legal uncertainty” and often housed in portables, Washington state’s charter schools are attracting students,...

Charter schools provide higher achievement for less money in eight cities, concludes a University of Arkansas study. “Public charter...

Urban Catholic schools are closing, victims of an obsolete funding model, writes Stephanie Saroki de García of Seton Partners. The...

Affluent parents in New York City hire lawyers to sue for private-school tuition for their special-needs children, writes Jim Epstein on...

School choice shouldn’t be controversial, writes Chris Stewart on Citizen Ed. School Choice Week reminds us that “hundreds of thousands...

New Orleans and Washington, D.C. — not Chicago — are the fastest-improving urban districts, argue Emily Langhorne and David Osborne of...

A new model for urban education — a portfolio of traditional and charter schools — is gaining ground, reports Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat....