Michigan's state Senate narrowly passed a bill Thursday that allows the expansion of charter schools in the state. The bill now goes to the state H...

This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the third of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the first of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

This piece comes to us courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism. This is the first of a three-part series by Bill Lueders exam...

During a year of turmoil, layoffs and wrangling over the hiring and firing of teachers, American appreciation for teachers reached an all-time high --...

NEW YORK -- The Walton Family Foundation announced a $49.5 million grant Wednesday to help double the size of Teach for America's national teaching co...

Florida's largest teachers' union joined the American Civil Liberties Union and several rabbis and ministers seeking to halt a 2012 ballot measure the...

Two new reports on standards-based accountability and incentive systems should end the current thrust of U.S. education policy.

The fight over the future of charter schools found a new battleground in Ohio this week with the hearing of a new kind of bill. State Sen. Joe Schi...

Cindra Barnard loves her district's public schools. That's why she's fighting the school board. Barnard is a resident of Douglas County, Colo., whe...

Laurel Blase, 6, doesn’t know where she'll start first grade this August. "I want to go to the charter school next year," she said, referring to ...

NEW YORK -- Milwaukee's voucher system, which allows low-income students to attend private schools using tax dollars, discriminates based on disabilit...

When it comes to education choices – from kindergarten up through college – the decision is no longer simple. Children don't just attend ...

A Georgia Supreme Court decision that challenges a state commission's ability to greenlight the creation of charter schools may have implications for ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — A homeless single mother's arrest on charges she intentionally enrolled her son in the wrong school district by using her baby...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives voted Wednesday to reinstate school vouchers for District of Columbia students, reviving the only...

While urgency has increased and many fresh faces have taken up the cause, the core ideas guiding education reform have remained remarkably stable.

Historian and author Diane Ravitch joined Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" Thursday to discuss education reform. In between Stewart's comical quips, h...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kelley Williams-Bolar, alarmed after her home was broken into, yanked her two daughters out of their urban Akron, Ohio, schools...

Iowa schools usually compete for basketball titles and top test scores this time of year. Now they're battling each other for students, too. Driven b...

One of the most contentious budget debates this year may be over something the president did not include in his 2012 spending plan -- school vouchers....

AKRON, Ohio — A woman convicted of a felony for using her father's address to enroll her children in a neighboring school district should be "sa...

WASHINGTON — GOP House Speaker John Boehner and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman introduced legislation Wednesday to revive a school voucher progr...