WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school on May 22, reigniting debates about the separation of church and state in the United States.

Wake County could see another five new charter schools open in the next two years, further fueling the growth of nontraditional public school seats. The state Office of Charter Schools recently ...

WASHINGTON − The Supreme Court on Wednesday will consider whether the Catholic Church in Oklahoma can run the nation’s first religious charter school, a potentially major expansion of the use ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Supporters hold signs outside of Tamayo Elementary School in Gage Park. The Chicago Teachers Union successfully fought to save Tamayo after Acero Charter ...

Ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo released a 25-point education plan Tuesday — boosting several policies backed by the New York teachers’ union while toning down his support for charter schools hated by ...

Washington — An evenly divided Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a lower court decision that invalidated a contract approved by the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board that established the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — When 100 Black Men of Syracuse proposed a charter school in Syracuse last year, it was the realization of nearly a decade of planning by the mentoring group that works with city ...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s unexpected deadlock in an Oklahoma Catholic charter school’s bid to secure public funds leaves unfinished business and may invite a similar legal challenge in the ...

Chief Justice John Roberts is likely to have cast deciding vote to block religious charter schools. Justice Amy Coney Barrett had announced in advance she would not participate in the decision.

Barrett is also close friends with Notre Dame law professor Nicole Stelle Garnett, who wrote an influential paper on why religious charter schools would pass muster in many states and who had ...

You would think that public school teachers' unions would love public charter schools. After all, teachers and their unions were the earliest supporters of charter schools that give flexibility to ...

Maryland’s charter schools are warning of possible closures as their leaders describe “dramatic” funding cuts since the rollout of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, the state’s ...