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, ...

Stoking a debate that had been heating up all fall, federal officials recently released a long-awaited study showing that 4th graders in charter schools posted lower math scores on the tests commonly ...

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 ...

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 ...

New findings on San Antonio public schools reveal that students in charter schools are in many cases outpacing their peers, both statewide and within the city — in a few cases, by as much as half of ...

You've probably heard the claim: Only 17 percent of charter schools outperform traditional public schools. This statistic — much beloved by school-choice opponents in Kentucky — comes from a ...

Charter schools tend to increase segregation among students, according to a study released last week by researchers at ASU and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The study, “Schools Without ...

“Charter schools are public schools, so they are particularly interesting in why they serve this lower number of kids in special ed,” said Marcus Winters, the study author and a senior fellow at the ...

A high-profile study claiming to expose increased racial segregation in charter schools is marred by flawed statistics, researchers at the University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform say.