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The Memphis Business Academy charter school has purchased a vacant retail space in Frayser with plans to relocate in 2010, a move school leaders say will create a safe haven for kids and boost economic development in the area.

For states, multi-choice is increasing the answer

Test scores improve two years in a row

Charter schools reached a new milestone this year. According to the Center for Education Reform, more than 5,000 charters are now operating in 39 states and the District of Columbia. Considering that the first charter didn't open until 1992

The leadership of the Pennsylvania Senate's Education Committee yesterday introduced promised legislation to overhaul the state's 12-year-old charter-school law and provide greater scrutiny of charters

Charter schools will have a new place to turn for advice next year when members of the D.C. Public Charter School Board start a nonprofit organization that will research how the schools can best be run.

See cap, run. Charter-school operators from other states are urging New York's elected officials to increase the number of charter schools allowed in the state or risk having them set up elsewhere, letters obtained by The Post reveal

HARTFORD — - The State Board of Education is considering four proposals that would overhaul the law governing charter schools, including one that would shift the cost of tuition to local school systems.

"We need help securing our schools just like the traditional schools," Schaeffler said.

Charter schools have become the “hot cause” for New York’s hedge fund managers.

Walking through a vacant District school building Thursday, Mary Shaffner could visualize the peeling paint replaced by fresh blackboards.

I will have a blog post shortly on a way President Obama could bring both sides of the charter debate together in a joint effort on a particular issue that would help everybody.

Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier reverses herself on charters

Charter schools have come into vogue as an attractive alternative for parents and kids looking for innovative learning environments and higher test scores.

A funny thing happened in October when the state Department of Public Instruction announced the first round of grants from an $86 million pool to be distributed for charter schools