Epic Charter School Founders Appear In Court For Embezzlement, Racketeering

“The fact that it's the first case pulled up from Oklahoma County illustrates the importance of the case." Drummond announced he would be taking on the prosecution of the Epic Charter School ... Read More

The Firm

The Firm's Chris Slade Had 'No Idea' It Was a Short-Term Project Drummer believes Led Zeppelin reunion talks brought supergroup to an end after two years. Guitarist and producer says the Firm ... Read More

New Report: Charter Fraud And Waste Worse Than We Thought

The organization's executive ... whose sole director was Patricia Lewis. Lewis was also a project leader for the academy. Lewis had worked the same deal in Georgia with a charter school that ... Read More

How a Memphis High School Built a Model for Education From Scratch

These are the questions the founders of Crosstown High, a public charter school in Memphis, Tennessee, asked when they initially embarked upon building a radically different type of high school in ... Read More

Four Reasons Charter Schools Don't Fit Rural Communities (And One Reason They Do)

So to keep the heart of their community intact and their children's education local, they re-opened their local school as a charter school, operated and controlled by local folks. It is the one ... Read More

Discovery Charter

At Discovery Charter, 68% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 72% scored at or above that level for reading.The school’s minority student enrollment is 68%. Read More

Craig Melvin

See Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb as Sonny and Cher Hoda Kotb Leaves the ‘Today’ Show Early to Take Her Kids to First Day of School: ‘See Ya Later!’ Craig Melvin's Mom Calls Him Out on TV ... Read More

Odyssey Charter School

At Odyssey Charter School, 55% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 68% scored at or above that level for reading.The school’s minority student enrollment is 58%. Read More

Charter Schools

California has over 1,300 charter schools— serving a little more than 1 in 10 of California’s public school students. In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom engineered major reforms of California's 1992 charter ... Read More

Okla. Supreme Court considers nation’s first religious charter school

Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond (R) appeared Tuesday before the state Supreme Court to challenge the constitutionality of a Catholic charter school ... the U.S. Supreme Court an ... Read More

Kevin Bacon

If It's On TV, I Watch It' Kyra Sedgwick Poses with Husband Kevin Bacon on Set Together: 'My Favorite Scene Partner’ Kevin Bacon Is Returning to High School Where Footloose Was Filmed for Their ... Read More

Public Charter School Sponsorships

If you are interested in learning more or getting involved in Saint Louis University's sponsorship of charter schools, contact Alexandra Boyd, executive director of public charter school partnerships ... Read More