Charter schooling has long suffered from a “more-of-the-same” problem. For all the opportunities to rethink the familiar schoolhouse, few of the nation’s 8,000 charter schools have actually done so.

As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama made a campaign pledge to increase federal support of charter schools. Before we get into what Obama did and didn't do, let's go over a little background. The ...

Back in 2008, President Obama promised to "double funding for the Federal Charter School Program to support the creation of more successful charter schools." Fast forward 8 years, and funding for ...

ways to improve education for poor Hispanic children, they agreed that the stakes were so high that a big gamble was in order. So they decided to try to raise $40-million to open 100 schools across ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed on Wednesday to be on the verge of taking a transformative step—a step that would for the first time allow overtly religious schools to be fully ...