The Iowa City school district has seen its enrollment grow every school year except one since the turn of the century. But that changed last school year, when the state rolled out its education ...

“Chronic absenteeism” has become a catchphrase on the lips of politicians and think tanks purportedly describing the “failure” of the US public education system. The high rates of student absences ...

Last week, Texas Republicans advanced a measure that would create a massive new school voucher program. Should it become law, parents could use $1 billion in public funds to subsidize private-school ...

For years, the loudest opposition to school privatization has come from public-school advocates and teachers’ unions, who argue that vouchers steal tax dollars from local public schools. They are now ...

While children in the United States are guaranteed a free education at their local public school through state constitutional law, many families weigh other educational options for their children.