At their core, charter schools are publicly funded but independently operated open-enrollment schools that are given more ...

This session, the Legislature has a chance to finally address one of the biggest inequities in Texas public education: facilities funding for public charter schools. Sen. Angela Paxton’s Senate ...

Kessly Salinas is a reporter at the Midland Reporter Telegram. She is from Friona, Texas and graduated from St. Edward’s ...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on May 3 signed a school choice bill into law, allocating $1 billion for about 100,000 ...

Some Houston-area charter schools far outperformed traditional public schools at the middle and high school level, although charter elementary schools performed worse, data from the Children at ...

Amanda McCoy amccoy@star-telegram.com Rocketship Public Schools Texas, a financially beleaguered charter school network, is closing its Fort Worth school at the end of the school year, officials ...

International Leadership of Texas (ILTexas) is a free K-12 charter school program serving over 23,000 children on 21 campuses. Connectivity is critical to the schools’ game plan of fostering ...