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As Pacific Legal Foundation celebrates school choice this week, we will highlight cases from our K-12 Education Project. One such case is Atlanta Independent School System a.k.a. Atlanta Public Schools et al., v. Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School, Inc., et al.  Atlanta Public Schools (APS) decided to tackle its massive — several hundred mi ...

We often get asked here at PLF why there isn’t school choice in California.  The answer I usually give is that Californians do have some choices in education.  Californians, of course, have one of the most robust charter school laws in the country.  Further, California law permits transfers from one public school district to another scho ...

This week, PLF filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that the School Board of Palm Beach County illegally denied an application to start a new charter school. Charter schools are privately run public schools that operate under a performance contract (charter) with a public sponsor (usually a school district). Charter schools operate free from ...