Charter Schools

Reasons cited for the charters' denial included large class sizes, poor academic records, and financial difficulties.

For-profit virtual charter schools have been dogged by complaints of low student performance, fraud and waste. Still, many are seeing a pandemic-induced enrollment surge.

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…

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.

The founder of a company that operated charter schools in several Florida counties has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.The Pensacola News Journal…