Elementary and high school students enrolled in charter schools in California made greater gains on standardized tests than students attending traditional campuses between 1999 and 2001 but still have ...

More than three million students across California traded in pencils for computers to take their standardized tests last school year. You might have read about the statewide results of the California ...

Fielding phone calls from parents asking about enrollment is part of everyday business for schools, but for some charter schools, the person on the other end of the line may only be posing as a parent ...

Mayor de Blasio may identify as a progressive champion of the underprivileged, but the reality is that he’s blocking the surest path to the middle class by relegating the city’s poor to inferior ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study of charter schools in Massachusetts has identified strikingly positive academic results. The paper, released last week ...

When it comes to helping poor and minority students get better test scores, good charter schools really do seem to make a difference. However — and it’s a big caveat — a new study suggests that the ...

The University of Arkansas today released what it calls a "first ever" study exploring the relationship between charter school funding and student achievement. Here at NPR Ed we get a lot of press ...

While Mayor Bill Blasio touted gains in test scores by public school students that were announced Thursday, their peers in charter schools are still doing better: 63 percent of the charter students in ...

A $490-million proposal backed by the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation to enroll half of the city’s students in charter schools will get a test this week when the Los Angeles Board of Education ...

A wealth of data about charter schools nationwide are concerning. Charter schools have made national headlines for scandals, lower test scores, and a host of other strange activities that make a ...