The U.S. Supreme Court on June 26 declined to hear the defense by a North Carolina public charter school that was blocked from requiring female students to wear skirts in school. The justices turned away an appeal from the Charter Day School in Leland, North Carolina, and left in place a decision by a lower…

Oklahoma’s Republican governor applauded the state’s charter school board for clearing the way for the nation’s first religious charter school. “I applaud the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board’s courage to approve the authorization for St. Isadore of Seville Catholic Virtual School,” Gov. Kevin Stitt said in a statement following the board’s vote. “This is…

The Orange County Board of Education Feb. 1 unanimously approved a petition for a charter school—that uses what’s known as a “servant leadership model”—after its application to the Capistrano Unified School District failed in November. The pro-charter board expressed support for the school’s approach, which in addition to teaching core subjects, seeks to instill leadership,…

Florida, Arizona and Indiana allow parents the greatest control over their children’s education while Alaska, Nebraska and North Dakota offer the least according to an index of parental empowerment created by the Center for Education Reform. The Parent Power Index rates states’ empowerment of parents based on three factors: opportunity, innovation and policy environment. Subcategories…

Commentary In the 1950s when television was in black and white as was the distinction between acceptable and unacceptable behavior, comedian Milton Berle would occasionally wear a dress in a skit, causing the studio audience to laugh uproariously. How things have changed. A U.S. Court of Appeals has recently ruled that North Carolina charter day…

Amid nationwide calls for giving parents more choice in their children’s education, the Biden administration has quietly proposed changes that critics say will make it harder for new public charter schools to open and for existing ones to survive. On March 14, the U.S. Department of Education released a 14-page regulatory proposal regarding the priorities,…

The time is up for three board of education trustees that have advocated for parental rights and against COVID-19 mandates in schools. While all three are running the race again, they are up against various challengers. Candidates had until March 11 to turn in their paperwork to run for a trustee seat that will be…

When you look at urban public education, it’s not public education—it’s a crime scene. Many public schools in cities across the country are failing their students. The money should follow the child rather than the other way around so that parents have an opportunity to put their kids in a school they want, whether public,…

A Costa Mesa, Calif. charter school is under fire from the Orange County Department of Education (OCDE) for allegedly collecting funds from students, exaggerating its daily attendance rate, and utilizing a building without the proper permits. The International School for Science and Culture (ISSAC) was established in 2019 and has since collected funds from students in the form of childcare fees. Its teacher aids supervised children for…

A high school senior of mixed race is suing a taxpayer-funded charter school in Nevada over the “coercive, ideological indoctrination” that is central to its Critical Race Theory-based curriculum that forces students to associate aspects of their identity with oppression. In the lawsuit, Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, filed Dec. 22 in federal…