Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Charter school students make more average progress in math and English than their counterparts in traditional public schools, ...

Charter schools nationwide report an array of achievement levels, according to a new national assessment, and some of that achievement is less than stellar. While charter proponents agree lawmakers ...

Students with disabilities who leave a traditional public school to enroll in a charter school experience improved academic outcomes along with their general-education peers, according to a new study.

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 ...

The American Federation of Teachers released an analysis this week of a Department of Education study, which found that fourth-grade students in public schools are more proficient in reading and math ...

CREDO, the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes, a non-partisan research center out of Stanford University, recently released its report on the educational impact of public charter schools in ...