Join NPE President Diane Ravitch as she and Carol Burris discuss her recently released memoir. An Education: How I Changed My Mind About Schools and Almost Everything Else is a beautifully written account of both the personal and professional growth of this hero of public education. This is a discussion you will not want to miss.

National Center for Charter School Accountability NCCSA National Center for Charter School Accountability The National Center for Charter School Accountability provides research and recommendations on increasing transparency and accountability for charter schools. Get the Facts In the News Contact Us Reports Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment, and Cost Part I: Decline is the first installment […]

A new annual report contains more info than in years past, but it’s still impossible to make apples-to-apples comparisons between schools. 

State funding of private-school vouchers is primarily being used for students attending religious institutions, with nearly 98% of funding going toward Catholic, Christian, Jewish and Islamic schools. This year, state lawmakers passed a budget that included a request from Gov. Mike Kehoe to supply the state-run K-12 scholarship program, MOScholars, with $50 million of general […]

Sarasota County schools should not allow charter operators to occupy buildings at little to no cost.

Prompted by charter operators plans to close schools, parents are seeking a state investigation into charter mismanagement.

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More families already in private schools are collecting LEARNS vouchers, but that doesn't indicate public school families are jumping ship.

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NAACP South Bend calls for halt to charter schools until four criteria are met, saying Indiana police increases segregation, takes away funding

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Dark money is once again pouring into Denver’s school board elections. As of the September 29 filing deadline, the independent expenditure (IE) committee Better Leaders, Stronger Schools reported over half...

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of public schools as we know them.

#SchoolVoucherScam$ is now an interactive research tool. Scandals can be sorted by category/state and searched with keywords.

From book bans to teacher qualifications, our new report examines the laws and policies that support or undermine each state’s public schools and the students who attend them.

National Center for Charter School Accountability NCCSA National Center for Charter School Accountability The National Center for Charter School Accountability provides research and recommendations on increasing transparency and accountability for charter schools. Get the Facts In the News Contact Us Reports Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment, and Cost Part I: Decline is the first installment […]

Over one million students have been stranded by charter school closures. Read this startling report on how and why thousands of charter schools shut down.

Part I: Decline, the first installment of a three-part report, Charter School Reckoning,  presents sobering findings on the stagnation, retrenchment, and accelerating closures plaguing the charter school sector as it enters its fourth decade. The report, published by the National Center for Charter School Accountability, documents that in the first half of 2025 alone, 50 […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The first wave of data is in after Gov. Bill Lee’s new school voucher program promised to transform education in Tennessee and now, we are learning what cities and ZIP codes received the most school vouchers statewide. WREG’s Alex Coleman took a deeper look into the numbers, revealing sharp divides across cities and ZIP codes, […]

Twenty years after Katrina, the city’s all-charter schools system is failing many families