Charter Schools

TALLAHASSEE --- In an issue that has drawn heavy debate in the Legislature, a divided appeals court Wednesday backed the Palm Beach County School Board...

Nearly three years after lawmakers passed a controversial measure that sought to bolster charter schools, the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down…

In a 95-page ruling, an administrative law judge Friday backed a decision by the Manatee County School Board to terminate a contract with a charter school…

Nine county school boards, including Polk County, are going to the Florida Supreme Court in a battle about the constitutionality of a controversial 2017…

Florida education czar Richard Corcoran bristles at being called a disrupter.He prefers the gentler label of "transformer," a brand Corcoran burnished…

Nearly 300,000 students attend charter schools in Florida. Charters are taxpayer funded, privately run and are changing the state’s public education...

We spent the full hour taking a closer look at the growth of the charter school movement in Florida with:

To state leaders who support charter schools, rural Jefferson County was a poster child for public school failure. By the summer of 2016, the small...

After a battle about the issue, a proposal to distribute voter-approved local money to charter schools landed back in a tax package that the House and…

The Florida Senate could eliminate controversial proposals about charter schools and hospitals from a tax package that was approved last week by the House.

During his campaign for governor, Ron DeSantis credited Republican education reform efforts like charter schools and private school vouchers for...

Florida’s combative former House speaker is going to become the state’s education commissioner.The State Board of Education voted unanimously on Monday to…