The Latest Breaking News from Charter Schools

Welcome to the Tuesday, May 30, Brew. 

Charter school enrollment more than doubled since 2010.

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina school fired back after a civil rights group blasted its short hair rule as “discriminatory.”

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Leaders of low-income communities of color worry the state’s power grab could deepen inequalities at schools like Wheatley High.

Their backgrounds — Paul Vallas, a technocrat devoted to school choice, and Brandon Johnson, a teachers union organizer — help explain clashing views on school reform.

The Warriors knocked off Hyde Park in the quarterfinals on Tuesday and have entered the spotlight for the first time in the history of the Perspectives charter schools.

From insider deals to real estate flips, the problems with charter schools run by for-profit corporations can’t be ignored. And growth in this sector is accelerating as operators use lax regulations and complicated corporate schemes to harvest public dollars from publicly-funded charter schools.

The charter schools received shorter term lengths than in the past and new conditions for continued approval as part of an ongoing effort to demand greater accountability.