Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

According to a new study to be published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, former charter school students earn more in their 20s and are more likely to graduate from college. The study ...

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 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 ...

On average, Louisiana's charter schools outperform traditional schools in both reading and math, according to one of the most comprehensive studies of charter school performance nationally.However, ...

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.