The U.S. Department of Education announced that it is easing regulatory measures pertaining to grant applications for charter schools as part of a school choice expansion.
The department is withdrawing two “burdensome and misaligned” notices for two grant programs aimed at charter schools, it said in a Jan. 31 statement. These notices were published during the last days of the Biden administration and, according to the agency, imposed “excessive regulatory burdens and promoted discriminatory practices.”
Charter schools are publicly funded but privately managed. These schools do not have to follow state or district requirements and can set up their own curriculum and regulations, but they operate according to a set of rules, or “charter.”…