Allowing charter schools to open with little consideration for other public schools and the surrounding community is fueling a crisis in American public education.

All of the rhetoric from charter school advocates about “school choice” only obscures the real choice.

"Academica's Florida Real Estate Operations" provides analysis of for-profit charter school operator Academica’s role as a landlord to schools in Florida.

Billionaires and investors are doubling down on charter school expansion, even as evidence mounts that the schools destabilize public school districts.

Despite receiving hundreds of millions of dollars from California’s taxpayers, California Virtual Academies (CAVA), owned by publicly traded K12 Inc., is failing key tests used to measure educational success.

Friday’s teacher strike in Chicago was also a protest against a growing national problem, the privatization of our public education system.

New data shows that black students are four times as likely to be suspended from charter schools as white students. [...]

If charter school growth continues unchecked and Detroit's traditional schools lose more students, it will be even harder for the public school system to pay down its debt and afford fixed costs

While high quality virtual charter schools can be useful for certain students, the majority of kids need teachers to interact with and classmates to socialize and study with.

Billionaire Eli Broad plans to raise and spend $490 million to create enough privately operated charter schools to house half of the city’s public school students. [...]

According to the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), since 2000, charter schools have failed at a much higher rate than traditional public schools.

Rather than the public good it should be, higher education has become a market product accessible to those who can afford it, harming America in the process.