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Thank You for Joining us in Texas! We had an amazing time in Texas with our most passionate allies in the fight for public education. Thank you to everyone who made the weekend a great success. SESSION PRESENTATIONS KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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From book bans to teacher qualifications, our new report examines the laws and policies that support or undermine each state’s public schools and the students who attend them.

Over one million students have been stranded by charter school closures. Read this startling report on how and why thousands of charter schools shut down.

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National Center for Charter School Accountability The National Center for Charter School Accountability provides research and recommendations on increasing transparency and accountability for charter schools. Get the Facts In the News Contact Us Reports Charter School Reckoning: Decline, Disillusionment, and Cost Part II: Disillusionment is the second installment of a three-part series report on the charter […]

A dirty little secret about school “choice” in Florida is that many families of students with disabilities actually have very few choices.

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Forty-six states and the District of Columbia permit charter schools to open, and 33 states plus D.C. allow independently governed charter schools that the Supreme Court may soon declare to be non-state actors not bound by constitutional obligations. This could create major legal tensions, as states may be unable to exclude religious charter schools from public funding while also losing the ability to enforce constitutional protections against discrimination and government establishment of religion. The issue stems from the Supreme Court’s increasing willingness to require states to fund religious institutions on equal terms with secular ones, potentially opening the door to publicly funded religious charter schools. States with independently governed charters could face heightened constitutional risk, while those with district-governed charter systems may be better positioned to preserve charter schools’ public character and oversight. The Appendix appears underneath the policy brief below. Suggested Citation: Welner, K.G., Burris, C.C., & Green, P.C. (2026). Avoiding the Supreme Court’s religious charter-school trap: Governance change for the new legal era. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date], from http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/religious-charters