A perfect storm of low enrollment, poor fiscal management, and some of the worst academic results in the state prompted Highland Parks Public Schools to take bold action.
Here's hoping that private schools in Louisiana won't be bullied out of their desire to serve disadvantaged students
The Louisiana teachers union can’t get the courts to stop private schools from enrolling voucher-bearing students this fall, so they’ve taken to threatening the schools with litigation.
Ohio charters are gaining an international reputation—but not for the best of reasons.
Have Cleveland’s charters “done badly?” Depends on your standard.
The charter sector has come a long way and its successes are worth celebrating, yet as this report demonstrates multiple challenges still remain
Louisiana has shown us that it’s possible to offer private-school choice and control for quality in a way that doesn’t cramp what makes a private school unique.
It’s time for some trust-busting
It matters to whom charters are compared
States like Louisiana could learn a lesson from Indiana's approach to reporting performance.
Charter schools may be celebrating twenty years of existence, but the milestone gets most of them no closer to the surplus classroom space and facility financing controlled by local school boards.
One more valuable option for students and parents
The folks at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice have put out a call for research proposals that explore the effects that choice and competition have on K-12 education.
Ohio charters have earned a global reputation.
Despite persistent hostility to charter school expansion in most states, there remains one aspect of charter schooling that fails to get the attention it deserves: athletics.
Lazy governance hurts charter innovation.
What is the nature of the relationship between a charter school authorizer and a charter school board?
Healthcare stole the show, but don’t forget that the Supreme Court handed down a decision this session with education implications.
Charter authorizers: No longer taken for granted
Terry Ryan on the importance of charter authorizers
There has been a lot of hand-wringing in the last week about whether charter schools are doing enough to enroll students with disabilities. But are we looking closely at who is among the learning disabled?
A look back at Fordham sponsored schools for the 2011-12 school year
For almost five years now, the Center for Reinventing Public Education and Mathematica have teamed up to assess the
Demand for a school was highly correlated with its quality. Baking a successful school-choice soufflé is challenging. The ingredients are hard to come by: Schools must be high performing while simultaneously offering options to a diverse parent base. And the recipe is fussy: Navigating the system should be easy and fair. There can be no inherent incentives to game the system.
No public school serves all disabilities
Children across Ohio will benefit if charters and school districts can end their feud and find ways to maximize resources across their schools.
