A prominent nonprofit group that has helped lure several charter schools to Baton Rouge announced Thursday it will build facilities for five of these public — but independently run — schools over the ...

A Recovery School District official plans to launch a nonprofit charter-management organization aimed at taking over and turning around failing schools. The move represents a national trend toward ...

This is a startling possibility. Charter schools have long enjoyed bipartisan support because they were seen as a compromise to private school vouchers. Advocates promoted charters as innovative ...