Charter schools arrived a decade ago. But even as the charter movement matures, this legislative season finds states still seeking the right level of oversight for the nearly 2,500 independent public ...

Andy Smarick and I continue our conversation about charter schools, this time focusing on what the movement’s boosters think charters will do. Schneider: We ended our previous conversation with some ...

These are results the progressives can’t dumb down: Charter schools are leapfrogging traditional public schools nationwide by all serious measures of learning progress. And those gains are spread ...

Teachers’ unions have recently been circulating studies showing only very modest achievement gains at charter schools. These studies have two unacknowledged problems, however. They are built on very ...

Charter schools remain somewhat of an enigma to many people, even participants in the muni bond market. This shows the importance of sufficient messaging on purpose, structure, bond security and ...