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These hybrid schools are blowing up the public education model

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Special Education by the Numbers

Traditional public schools still serve a larger percent of special needs kids than charters. Why does it matter?

Explore the history of how and why the Catholic parochial system developed in America.

One urban parochial school struggles to keep Catholic

Look inside an elementary charter school with a Chinese language immersion program.

One financially troubled Catholic school sheds its religious curriculum in order to stay open.

Conversions are an attractive exit plan for struggling parochial schools.

Follow charter co-founder Irene Hall as she lobbies for her school in the nation’s capitol.

Hundreds of charter school advocates went to Capitol Hill to lobby for pro-charter legislation on Wednesday.

Q and A with Steve Barr, founder of Green Dot Public Schools.

James Forman Jr. on the challenges facing the charter school movement.

On the scene at the largest annual event focused on charter schools.

Columbia News 21 team provides live coverage of National Charter School Conference in in Washington, D.C.

Brownsville Brooklyn parents and school leaders gained new allies Tuesday in their battle to keep P.S. 150 from closing down for good.

As urban Catholic schools continue to close across the country, some cities may transform them into charters.

Interactive - The Charter Explosion

Track the dramatic expansion of charter schools across the U.S. and trace the major factors in this important trend, with our interactive map and timeline.
Reporting Education -- Through the Charter Lens

Since early 2009, the Columbia News21 team took notebooks, cameras and curiosities to places such as New Orleans, the Twin Cities, Newark, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., to explore the new marketplace of hybrid, public-private schools.
The result is this web site -- a deeply reported, richly multimedia and interactive web site, produced by a dozen Columbia journalism fellows, their editors and a group of new media producers.
Travel History with Our Interactive Timelines

Learn how Catholic school education and American Indian school programs have developed since the country's founding, in our clickable multimedia timelines.
Watch Storm's Impact on New Orleans Schools
National Charter Schools Conference Coverage

<a href="http://www.coveritlive.com/mobile.php?option=com_mobile&task=viewaltcast&altcast_code=b85ec06033" >National Charter School Conference Coverage</a>
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