Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Manno writes on education, workforce training, and career pathways. The Charter Schools Program was created with the passage of ...

Charter schooling has long suffered from a “more-of-the-same” problem. For all the opportunities to rethink the familiar schoolhouse, few of the nation’s 8,000 charter schools have actually done so.

ways to improve education for poor Hispanic children, they agreed that the stakes were so high that a big gamble was in order. So they decided to try to raise $40-million to open 100 schools across ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed on Wednesday to be on the verge of taking a transformative step—a step that would for the first time allow overtly religious schools to be fully ...

There are two distinct legal questions before the U.S. Supreme Court as it hears arguments this week in a major case over a religious charter school in Oklahoma. Both are infused with deep ideological ...