And here’s the catch. All of the CPS properties come with deed restrictions prohibiting their use for selling liquor or tobacco — or reopening them as charter schools, Chalkbeat Chicago reported.

Thirty years ago, Congress created a radical new idea: fund initiatives for public schools that operated with more flexibility, community control, and strong accountability. Charter schools ...

Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. The Charter Schools Program was created with the passage of the Improving America’s Schools Act, which “New Democrat ...

Board of Education. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School v. Drummond – and its companion case, Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board v. Drummond – asks whether religious groups ...

They are not private schools and they are not traditional public schools — they are charter-public schools, usually referred to as charter schools. The most important advantage enjoyed by ...

The bill is one of a series of measures that lawmakers have considered this year that could help charter schools. Charter schools are public schools typically run by private operators and ...

The Supreme Court’s answer will determine whether a Catholic school in Oklahoma can become the nation’s first religious charter school. By Sarah Mervosh The very identity of the nation’s ...

On Wednesday, the court heard arguments over whether states may insist that charter schools, which they all define as public schools, be nonsectarian. Nearly every state offers charter schools to ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature is moving forward with a series of proposals that would help charter schools, while Democrats argue the measures would chip away at ...

On a late Tuesday afternoon, parents packed into a multi-purpose room on the bottom floor of the Albert Einstein Academy Charter Middle School campus in Grant Hill. A troop of children dressed in the ...

Last month, Namgyal Choedup, the Dalai Lama’s North American envoy, noted in a letter to Minnesota’s state legislature that “charter schools are currently asked to operate with 30 percent less funding ...