Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students with disabilities who leave a traditional public school to enroll in a charter school experience improved academic ...

CHICO — Do students in California charter schools perform better than their peers attending “traditional,” non-charter schools? Perhaps; perhaps not. That appears to depend on the school district and ...

WASHINGTON -- Students in charter schools, often seen as an alternative to failing neighborhood schools, are scoring significantly below public school pupils in basic reading and math skills, a new ...

Charter school students outscore their traditional public school peers on standardized math and reading exams and would do 40% better if they had equal funding per pupil, a new study indicates. A ...

Parents, teachers, and other school reformers who want to make full use of public charter schools to help students who are struggling in regular public schools received reinforcement from a new ...

According to a new study to be published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, former charter school students earn more in their 20s and are more likely to graduate from college. The study ...

Test score improvements at L.A. Unified's 100+ charter school campuses are zooming past rising scores at nearby traditional campuses. So says a study from the statewide association that's been pushing ...

Florida's Schools of Hope law permits charter operators to establish programs in public schools that have unused space. The post Inside the plan to move charter schools into public buildings appeared ...

Arizona charter school kindergartners are being vaccinated at lower rates than those in public schools, a University of Arizona study said. The vaccination exemption rates have tripled in ...