Carbon Valley Academy, a small K-8 charter school in Frederick, is closing at the end of the school year because of low enrollment, school officials announced.

A Sacramento county board overturned Twin Rivers Unified School District’s revocation of Highlands and CICA over fiscal mismanagement and compliance failures.

Emily Jones defeated William Matthews during the Republican runoff in the District 8 Alabama Board of Education race.

Legends Charter Academy had been in trouble for years--but did not tell parents. Why were they running such huge deficits in a state that generously funds charter…

#SchoolVoucherScam$ is now an interactive research tool. Scandals can be sorted by category/state and searched with keywords.

New federal program is a devil’s bargain and must not override the will of our people.

I was present in the very beginnings of the charter school movement. I advocated on their behalf. I and many others said that charter schools would be better than public schools because they would …

Limestone University’s May closure left the charter schools it sponsored homeless. This week, all 17 decided what to do next. At least two will shut down.

The city’s all-charter school experiment is a cautionary tale about what happens when democracy is stripped from public education.

A new report points to “a culture of alienation and control” as part of a critique of a policy brief that found academic gains for New Orleans students as a result of charter conversions.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  NEWARK, N.J. – Today, Education Law Center released, Making the Grade: How Fair is School Funding in Your State?, the latest...

A recent essay proposes using “responsible innovation” to design the AI-enabled edtech of the future.

The city’s all-charter school experiment is a cautionary tale about what happens when democracy is stripped from public education.

Join NPE President Diane Ravitch as she and Carol Burris discuss her recently released memoir. An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else is a beautifully written account of both the personal and professional growth of this hero of public education. This is a discussion you will not want to […]

More families already in private schools are collecting LEARNS vouchers, but that doesn't indicate public school families are jumping ship.

This video by NPE is based on a great investigative story by the reporters Quinlan Bently and Bebe Hodges of the Cincinnati Enquirer about how for-profit charter…

Public schoolteachers in Colorado earn nearly 40 percent less than other college graduates.

A former educator says Florida is engaging in a coordinated campaign to undermine traditional public schools. | Opinion

Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning,  presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter sch...

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Rural states were historically resistant to charter schools, but that has changed in recent years.

What goes into the process of labeling schools, and how reliable are those labels — especially when a school is labeled as “failing”? This is the second of three articles on public schools as a common...

Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, presents sobering findings on the stagnation,…

Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment and Cost Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, presents sobering findings on the stagnation,…