Texas State president Kelly Damphousse brings a passion and vision to Bobcats ahead of next year's move to Pac-12.

The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Salvador Cavazos, who oversees fewer than 1,000 students, is ...

The Texas Legislature has prioritized getting high school dropouts the skills they need to enter the workforce.

Commissioner of Education Mike Morath has repeatedly waived expansion requirements for charter school networks, allowing them to serve thousands more students, even when they don’t meet academic ...

Growth of charter schools has ballooned in Austin, especially along the eastern area of the city. And it's not a trend unique to Texas.

With charter schools making headlines in recent weeks in the Houston region, many residents may be wondering how they operate and how they are regulated in Texas.

Texas charter schools, which have seen explosive growth as an alternative to traditional public schools, posted mixed results under a new state rating system rolled out this month. According to the… ...

Some of Texas' most crowded classrooms are in charter schools An analysis by The Dallas Morning News found that a surprising number of charter campuses had some of the state’s largest class sizes.

After Texas adopted stricter rules for charter schools, student academic performance in the sector is climbing. These findings may add more fodder to the debate over whether government should play ...

When public-school students enrolled in Texas’ largest charter program open their biology workbooks, they will read that the fossil record is “sketchy.” That evolution is “dogma” and an ...

Prepared Table Charter School in Houston seemed like the perfect solutionfor at-risk youths. Long under the country's microscope for subpar publicschools, Texas embraced the concept ...