Charter Schools

Una escuela chárter de Brooklyn experimenta con una nueva forma de ayudar a las familias al ampliar la jornada escolar. Los alumnos pueden llegar a las 7 a. m. y salir en cualquier momento antes de las 7 p. m. Gratis.

A Brooklyn charter school is experimenting with a new way to help families by expanding the school day. Students can arrive at 7 a.m. and leave any time before 7 p.m. For free.

Inspirados por el éxito académico de centros como la secundaria Michaela, en el noroeste de Londres, algunos directores están aplicando controles férreos sobre el comportamiento de los alumnos.

Inspired by the academic success of schools like the Michaela secondary school in northwest London, some principals are introducing tight controls on students’ behavior.

Charter schools are popping up in struggling malls as landlords look for alternative tenants and communities seek to increase educational opportunities.

Philanthropists worry that the city’s complex tangle of crises — migrants, homelessness, housing, the cost of living — cannot be easily fixed.

In a new book, Cara Fitzpatrick traces the rise of the movement to expand public funding for privately operated institutions.

As part of a state takeover plan, libraries in underperforming schools are becoming spaces for disruptive students to watch lessons on computers.

A religious public charter school would be an affront to taxpayers everywhere.

A Catholic school, newly approved in Oklahoma, is testing the bounds of what it means to be a charter — uncomfortably so for some leaders.