...that's different.In his recent book, "The Grand Jihad," author Andrew McCarthy shows us how.Under Minnesota Charter School law, the Muslims are allowed to operate a charter school, a benefit accorded no other religious group.They operate...

...order." On Tuesday he said he will introduce a bill Thursday intended to close some of the holes he sees in the charter-school law. He said his review of financial records from 1999 and 2000 for more than 50 charter schools revealed excessive...

...described as state delays in cracking down on the institution. She said she was left to conclude that the state charter-school law is ripe for abuse. "The way that legislation was written, you could drive a truck through it," she said. Reichgott...

...can't open until its sponsor is approved by the state Department of Education. Last year, the state enacted a new charter school law and regulations that has delayed this approval process. Discovery Woods was only one of four proposed charter schools...

...Charter Schools to meet. Charter schools are public schools, often run by teachers and parents, that operate outside regular school-district constraints. Minnesota, which passed the nation's first charter-school law in 1991, now has 63.

...schools. "Cyber schools are being shoehorned into the charter school law, and they just don't fit very well," association...rejected the association's arguments, citing a charter school law provision that allows charter schools to enroll out-of-district...

...position their states for the competition. So it's puzzling to see how New York, with its failure to enact new charter school laws and its ban on the use of student test scores in teacher tenure decisions, made the grade. Ditto Kentucky, where...

...can't open until its sponsor is approved by the state Department of Education. Last year, the state enacted a new charter school law and regulations that has delayed this approval process. Discovery Woods was only one of four proposed charter schools...