News Briefs
Despite concern over their mixed results, a growing group of advocates is working to improve the quality of charter schools across the country.
July 15, 2008
The private-school-voucher program for the District of Columbia would continue for another year, following a key U.S. House panel vote.
July 15, 2008
Charter schools in Los Angeles are generally producing stronger academic growth than traditional public schools in the city, according to a report released last week by a charter school advocacy organization.
June 17, 2008
Though legislation that would have changed how to pay for education in Georgia failed to pass, lawmakers recently approved bills aimed at giving charter schools some financial help and easing some of the barriers to the approval of new charters.
June 3, 2008
A report awarded seven states and the District of Columbia a grade of A and two states an F in ranking the nation’s 41 charter school laws.
May 13, 2008
Some board members said they were unhappy that Mr. Riedlinger was also serving as chief of the School Leadership Center of Greater New Orleans.
May 6, 2008
An emerging crop of programs to prepare principals of charter schools shows promise but “miss or treat too lightly” certain crucial issues facing leaders of those independent public schools, a new report says.
June 24, 2008
A study of the federally funded program, which faces an uncertain future in Congress, finds few gains for voucher recipients on the whole, but points to possible reading improvements for certain subgroups of students.
June 16, 2008
At the end of the school’s first year back at home at its Lower Ninth Ward campus, all but four of 49 students at the King charter school passed the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, a requirement for them to be promoted to the 5th grade.
June 3, 2008
Regular exposure to people connected to higher education is a key piece of one New Orleans charter school's academic model.
May 21, 2008
