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The New York City school system has over 1,700 schools and while numbering them may seem simple, it is actually fraught with difficulties.   Because there are so very many schools, sometimes school numbers are doubled or even tripled.  The repeating...

by Marian Wang This post has been updated to include a response from National Heritage Academies. A couple of years ago, auditors looked at the books of a charter school in Buffalo, New York, and were taken aback by what they found. Like all charter...

The contracts are an example of how the charter schools sometimes cede control of public dollars to private companies that have no legal obligation to act in the best interests of the schools or taxpayers. When the agreement is with a for-profit firm...

Staff Report The Arrowhead league wrestling finals were held at Excelsior Charter school on Wednesday, Feb. 10. The small but resilient Mustang wrestling team was there ready to give it there all. Some of the wrestlers were not at 100 percent, but...

Ben Chapman in today's Daily News: New York State charter schools have made more than $28 million in questionable expenditures since 2002, according to a new review of previous audits of the publicly funded, privately run schools. The Center for Popular...