One of the area's largest business groups is announcing a strategy to close the education gap in Milwaukee.

Key lawmakers and educators are growing increasingly pessimistic that a massive overhaul of federal school policy can get through Congress before the 2012 election-year battles could doom the hopes for major bipartisan legislation.

Gov. Bobby Jindal is reelected and intends to make K-12 education reform a top priority in the next term.

Wisconsin’s budget committee passes bill, which would create an independent charter school board to authorize charters in medium and large districts around the state.

Andre Agassi plans on deploying $500 million over the next three years to build 75 charter schools throughout the country in cities, like Milwaukee and Philadelphia.

Researchers complete three-year study of Denver Public Schools' pay-for-performance system and find correlation to improved test scores.

Senate Republicans unexpectedly help teachers’ unions by knocking out teacher evaluations in proposed rewrite of NCLB.

More than 100,000 students attending 226 schools in Ohio are eligible for state school choice program in next school year.

The Pennsylvania Coalition of Public Charter Schools held a press conference this afternoon to urge lawmakers to vote for education reform bills that they said would provide additional accountability and transparency measures to charter schools.

Philadelphia’s new “Renaissance” turnaround operators are reporting big gains on the 2011 PSSA exams at the seven long-struggling public schools they converted to charters last year.