School privatizers wanted school vouchers for Kentucky. But they ran into two problems: 1) A constitution 2) Judges who can read the constit...

Last month, Amelia Pak-Harvey at Chalkbeat Indiana ran a story abo ut a failing charter school that had been approved for a new lease on lif...

Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education as Private Business Funded by Public Tax Dollars (okay, I just added that...

This morning's Boston Post Globe reports that a " Bitter Fight Brewing over Mass. Charter School Expansion " (though it could...

We've collected a whole bunch this week, campers. Let's get cracking. I Don't Want To Be Liberal Blue Cereal Education tells...

One of the great lies of the charter-choice movement is that you can run multiple school districts for the price of one. A school district...

The Red Bank, NJ, school system is actually a tiny little thing. Three boroughs (Red Bank, Little Silver and Shrewsbury) run their own K-8 s...

It is Sunday morning, and so cold and still outside that you can't hear anything but some birds and the sound of ice crunching up agains...

This week, reporter Ann Doss Helms of the Charlotte Observer and Lynn Bonner of the News & Observer both offered accounts of a strikin...

St. Louis teachers are currently caught at the epicenter of just about every kind of assault on public education going on these days. Thei...

Well, at least she just put it right out there. In a piece at the Daily Beast , Campbell Brown calls for US politicians to follow the exam...

Over at Campbell Brown's Reformsters R Us PR site, charter fan Richard Whitmire addresses the question of how to handle terrible awful ...

Families need a choice. Parents want a choice. Poor students deserve a choice. We hear the rhetoric over and over again, but I remain convin...

The Washington State supreme court has spoken, and charter supporters are freaking out. There's a #saveWAcharterschools tag on twitter...

Its financial recovery plan rejected by the state , Chester Uplands School District now faces the grim reality that it cannot meet its payro...

The New York charter school that had the highest jump in ELA test scores is also the charter school that decided to score their own tests. ...

In Pennsylvania, opening a charter school, particularly a  cyber-charter, has long been just like printing money in your garage (only you wo...