Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charter school students make more average progress in math and English than their counterparts in traditional public schools, ...

Charter schools nationwide report an array of achievement levels, according to a new national assessment, and some of that achievement is less than stellar. While charter proponents agree lawmakers ...

If the nation’s diverse collection of charter schools were to be given a group report card, at this point they’d have a hard time making it onto the honor roll. That’s the lowdown from two reports ...

Students with disabilities who leave a traditional public school to enroll in a charter school experience improved academic outcomes along with their general-education peers, according to a new study.

The American Federation of Teachers released an analysis this week of a Department of Education study, which found that fourth-grade students in public schools are more proficient in reading and math ...

Both the article about a charter school study and its authors draw the wrong conclusions (“Study: Maryland charter students’ gains outpace those at traditional schools; black, Hispanic pupils benefit ...