That’s almost three times the 5,500 students who transferred into charter schools from Austin in the 2011-12 school year, according to the Texas Education Agency and PASA. In other districts ...

The Texas Girls School (Austin) Unparalleled Preparatory Academy (Manor) The board vetoed the granting of a charter to Visionary STEM Academy (Terrell), according to the TEA.

The state panel last approved a new charter school for Austin in 2014, although existing charter schools — which are privately run public schools — have opened new campuses in the city since then.

The other five —Brillante Academy, Doral Academy of Texas, Learn4Life-Austin, Prelude Preparatory Charter School and Royal Public Schools — will be allowed to open schools next academic year ...

New analysis highlights the growth of charter school enrollment in Austin as well as the ... Hispanic students made up 61.5% of the total population of open-enrollment charter schools in Texas, ...

AUSTIN, Texas — One Austin charter school agrees with mask mandates but is choosing to follow Gov. Greg Abbott's ban on them. The hustle and bustle of the first day of classes at the Kipp Austin ...

On Tuesday, Ki Charter became the first charter school system in Texas to deploy the software. “We serve a student population that requires an exceptional level of care and security, and I was ...

Texas’ largest charter school network has been placed under conservatorship by the Texas Education Agency after a years-long investigation into improper spending within the system of 143 schools.

More than 420,000 kids attend the nearly 900 charter campuses in Texas, representing about 8% of the state’s more than 5 million public school students. The Texas Public Charter Schools ...

CBS News Texas Live. Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that ...

Bob Schoolfield, president of Let’s Choose Schools, a Texas-based school choice advocacy organization, approves of all aspects of SB 308 and SB 1830 and thinks they will pass. Two of the top 100 ...