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

The school voucher provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is expected to transfer billions of dollars to private schools and companies that contract with public school districts. That includes companies owned by private equity firms.

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

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

This video by NPE is based on a great investigative story by the reporters Quinlan Bently and Bebe Hodges of the Cincinnati Enquirer about how for-profit charter…

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 […]

Americans United for Separation of Church and State President and CEO Rachel Laser issued the following statement in response to today’s Religious Liberty Commission hearing on religious freedom in public education:“Yet again, President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission demonstrated that its true...

What were Ohio voters thinking on June 17, 1851?