Charter Schools

For nearly four years, Jaheim Byars found peace in National Collegiate Preparatory Public Charter High School that the streets and other schools couldn’t provide. By his senior year, he had encouraged his younger cousins to apply to the…

A Nobel Prize-winning economist designed an algorithm that transformed where Washington kids go to school. But how far can it go in addressing segregation and inequality?

When the D.C. Public Charter School Board voted in December to initiate revocation proceedings for National Collegiate Prep, a Ward 8 charter high school founded 10 years ago that educates about 250 students, few could say they were really…

“This is not exactly a cutting-edge idea,” says Councilmember Charles Allen.

Public charter schools in D.C. have recently come under scrutiny for what many see as a lack of transparency. Unlike traditional public schools, charters aren’t required to make salaries, records, or vendor contracts under $100,000 public,…

Teachers at the District’s only unionized charter filed a federal labor complaint against their bosses Wednesday, six weeks after the charter network announced it would close its middle school campus.

WASHINGTON — For D.C. resident Alex Cournol, Feb. 25 was “Christmas,” 10 months early.

The experiment of tying teachers’ evaluations and pay to student test scores is over. It captured the imagination of decision-makers in D.C., Denver and nationwide a decade ago. As Post columnist David Von Drehle pointed out, the demand to…

One of the District’s highest-performing charter schools is under federal investigation amid allegations it more harshly disciplines African American students.

For years, D.C. officials and members of the public have struggled with transparency issues within the ballooning charter school system.

How one school is using co-teaching and computer-based learning to maximize the amount of individual attention each student receives