A Chicago Teachers Union report released Thursday criticizes the lack of oversight of the district’s more than 100 charter schools. Charter schools make up about a sixth of all schools in the ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Supporters hold signs outside of Tamayo Elementary School in Gage Park. The Chicago Teachers Union successfully fought to save Tamayo after Acero Charter ...

are free and open to all students and their teachers can join state retirement and insurance plans. That’s why 46 states, including Oklahoma, and the federal government define charter schools as ...

Southland College Prep Charter High School envelops students in a true college prep environment. Academics are rigorous and extracurriculars are plentiful. The school has a 98% graduation rate, an ...

Public charter school teachers could receive pay raises in the next biennium thanks to legislation on the table in Carson City. Speaker Steve Yeager, D-Las Vegas, presented Assembly Bill 398 on ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. — A special legislative session may be narrowly avoided thanks to an amendment to Assembly Bill 398 that adds public charter school teacher pay raises. House Speaker Steve ...

Last week, all democrats and a handful of republicans on a state budget committee voted to remove charter school teacher pay raises from the education budget, prompting Gov. Joe Lombardo to ...

Charter schools are thus typically far less influenced by the faddish approaches promoted by schools of education because few of their administrators and teachers have earned degrees from schools ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers Thursday gave final approval to a bill that would make a series of changes related to charter schools, including allowing charter schools to have stricter codes ...

The bill is one of a series of measures that lawmakers have considered this year that could help charter schools. Charter schools are public schools typically run by private operators and ...

And unlike at many public schools, their teachers typically are not unionized. Today, about 3.7 million students attend charter schools, in 44 states and Washington, D.C., representing about 7 ...

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s Republican-controlled Legislature is moving forward with a series of proposals that would help charter schools, while Democrats argue the measures would chip away at ...