Accel, an Ohio-based for-profit charter chain, proposes opening a charter school in Washington County. Washington County public school parents pushed back on the plan. While the charter school may ...

The bill would also allow municipalities to apply to convert a public school into a job engine charter school — a privately run public school with curricula designed to meet local employment ...

What began as a small after-school program quickly grew. Over the next five years, the program added 200 weekly classes, reaching 2,000 children across six inner-city sites in and around Echo Park, ...

Thurston explained it was part of a school fundraiser. The student gasped. “So we can stay open?” the student asked. Paz, an Acero charter school on the Southwest Side, is slated to close by ...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of a religious charter school in Oklahoma seeking public funds. Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond brought the case, claiming that ...

The Senate bill grants an advisory board significant power over charter school authorization, including recommending the conversion of underutilized properties. The House bill also shifts charter ...

Three charter school applications were denied by the Metro Nashville Public Schools board on April 22. The move came after supporters spoke in favor of The Rock Academy, a proposed charter high ...

LAYTON — The director of a Utah charter school with campuses in Layton and Ogden has been arrested and accused of possessing — and possibly producing — child sex abuse material. Jared Dallan ...

The Chicago Board of Education again delayed voting on renewing contracts with 21 charter schools, leaving families and staff with more uncertainty just months before the end of the school year.

Cancel anytime. JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis public school officials can move forward with a lawsuit seeking to stop a new charter school from operating in the city. But it wasn’t clear Tuesday ...

“School choice” sounds good on paper, but when schools shut down overnight with no warning, it’s clear the real “choice” isn’t being made by those who aren’t impacted. Charter ...