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 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 ...

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. zetaschools/Instagram ...

Charter schools provide students with greater educational gains per dollar spent than traditional public schools (TPS). That's the finding of a new report from University of Arkansas researchers that ...

PATERSON — Students at the College Achieve charter schools in Paterson get to go home 90 minutes early every Friday afternoon. But their teachers must stick around for another two hours for weekly ...

When Alaska’s charter schools topped the nation in an analysis of student test scores, even the Harvard researchers who authored the study were stunned. Paul Peterson, director of Harvard’s education ...

Minnesota is the birthplace of the charter school movement, with the first schools opening in 1992. Now, about 76,000 students are enrolled in 180 charter schools in the state. Because they are ...

It is at risk for losing its charter and closing. The shutdown would come a little over three years after the Erie School Board renewed its charter with a plan designed to improve the school's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. Since the first law creating these independent public schools ...