A new federal study, drawing on data from five states, found that the charter school students there were less likely to meet state achievement targets than children in regular public schools.

A federal bank regulator further integrated financial technology into the traditional banking system when it granted a national trust bank charter to a crypto company, according to people tracking the ...

A growing number of Republicans are calling for Congress to strip the nation’s largest teachers union of its federal charter in response to its ballooning political contributions, support of critical ...

The federal charter of Georgetown University was signed into law by President James Madison on March 1, 1815, formally recognizing the university and authorizing it to grant degrees. From the White ...

Earlier this year when members of Congress repeatedly confronted U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos about a study finding the federal government’s charter school grant program had wasted an ...

The decades-long honeymoon between Democrats and charter schools was too good to last. Starting in the Reinventing Government era, Democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama praised public charter ...

Many charter schools are reducing or eliminating the racial-achievement gap, and outperforming students in wealthy areas. AP/Tim Roske With this year’s midterms looming and control of Congress hanging ...

The federal Charter School Programs (CSP) began in 1995 as a modest program intended to jump-start new, independent, publicly funded schools free of most regulations. The idea was to free educators ...

Brian Hayden thinks he can pinpoint the day that Pennsylvania students started flocking to his school. It was early July 2020, and Hayden and the rest of the staff at the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter ...

Opinion surveys have consistently shown strong public support for charter schools. A recent survey from Education Next, a well-known education policy journal, is no exception. The survey found, for ...

A vigorous debate over charter schools unfolded in the nation’s capital on Dec. 15 as officials released the results of a federal pilot study of how students in the independently run but publicly ...

Charter schools are having a rough stretch. They’ve been under attack from leading Democratic presidential candidates. House Democrats have sought to eliminate federal support for charter schools.