charter schools

This is the second week of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) strike. It’s the second CTU strike in less than 10 years, and it’s having wide and far-ranging repercussions.

Over the past 15 years, the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) has become the Little Engine That Could among school choice programs in the United States.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal, and Justin Haskins are joined by Jim Lakely in episode #192 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from Gallup, the National Center for Public Policy Research, and the National Review Institute.

Renegade locals fight California state NAACP and national board over anti-charter school stance.

California’s teachers unions, a compliant legislature and an anti-choice governor do not bode well for the state’s charter schools.

“Homeschooling was for hippies, now it’s for hipsters.”

Charter schools are not going to disappear overnight from the menu of education-reform options.

A throwdown in North Carolina over school choice has public school defenders up in arms over enrollment rates.

If a state offers a grant program, do its officials violate the Constitution if they reject a church preschool’s application due to the state’s longstanding ban on all aid, direct or indirect, to religiously affiliated organizations?

It’s National Charter Schools Week, and parents, students, teachers, and community members across the nation are celebrating the success of their independent schools.

The Obama administration was fond of proclaiming that high-school graduation rates hit record highs during its tenure. A new report shows that those numbers don’t mean much.

The record-breaking numbers for the seventh annual National School Choice Week (NSCW), which wrapped up January 28, were stunning.

Whatever the SEL people’s motives, their agenda is a waste of time and money, and it obviously hasn’t helped improve academic outcomes.