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In April 2025, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether the nation’s first religious charter school can open in Oklahoma. The St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would be ...
Syracuse, N.Y. — When 100 Black Men of Syracuse proposed a charter school in Syracuse last year ... But deficiencies like this are not uncommon. Mike Lesczinski, a spokesman for the institute ...
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.
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 ...
Students and parents in the Chicago area are in search of a specific school environment may find it in a charter school. Charter schools are public, and unlike private schools, a charter is free to ...
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 ...
The case tests whether public money can be used to fund a religious charter school in Oklahoma, and its outcome could affect how public education funds are used in virtually all states. Adam ...
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 ...
Joseph Mayers, a tall and slender senior at Uncommon Charter High School, sat on a colorful rug next to a box of interlocking plastic bricks as 4- and 5-year-old preschoolers excitedly built and ...
A Florida-based education management company claims in a lawsuit that the Charter Institute at Erskine does more than just provide oversight and accountability to the schools it sponsors.
The closures of charter schools have been a pressure point for the newly seated Chicago Board of Education. Some board members are concerned that last week’s vote to keep open five of seven ...
When a charter school works, it works. The publicly funded, independently run schools are often subjected to scrutiny, but in Sarasota County, several operate without issue. Some even thrive.