While accountability for traditional public schools is discussed in terms of school improvement grants and turn around models, proposals for charter school accountability are much more highly regulated, taking a movement born to welcome entrepreneurial enterprise and demonstrate performance-based accountability, and turning it into a new “system” that requires a heavy hand from federal policymakers.

The Indiana Supreme Court will hear arguments challenging the constitutionality of the state's rapidly expanding voucher program that the teachers union is aiming to shut down.

In a move that could trigger legal challenges, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission votes to suspend part of state law to control charter-school growth.

Record spending on School Improvement Grants does not produce record results.

"Newark Teachers Vote 'Yes' on Precedent-Setting Contract" by John Mooney NJ Spotlight November 15, 2012 After a year of negotiations and three weeks of sometimes-brutal internal debate, Newark public school teachers and other staff ratified a historic labor agreement yesterday that will reshape pay and many rules for New Jersey’s largest school district. Nearly 2,900…

Following a flood of protests from parents and charter supporters, the Los Angeles Unified board soundly rejected a resolution seeking a voluntary moratorium on new charter applications.

The federal Race to the Top competition is making school districts dole out far more money than they're receiving from the program, according to school officials and experts.

Washington voters have narrowly approved an initiative that clears the way for up to 40 charter schools to be opened in the state over the next five years.

The future of charters could be determined Tuesday by a ballot measure that asks voters to amend the State Constitution so that an appointed statewide commission could authorize new schools.

Submitting a school choice application to Metro schools is becoming a little easier this month with the launch of an online process designed to get more children enrolled in the school they want, an education official said.