Based on their own in-depth study of 17 diverse charter schools in California and other recent studies from around the country, the authors explore how the lais

Since the early 1990s when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the scope and availability of school-based options to parents has stea

Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better s

This book opens up a critical conversation among progressive educators of various generations, races, perspectives, and social locations concerning one specific

When charter schools first arrived on the American educational scene, few observers suspected that within two decades thousands of these schools would be establ