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Identifying Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools Part 1: The Role and Perspective of Charter School Authorizers
Critical Questions and Steps for Leaders to Reduce or End School-Based Policing
Charting the Course to Equity: K-12 Leaders of Color and Student Success
A Tale of Two Grantees: How AppleTree Institute and Hiawatha Academies Are Using CSP Funds to Make a Difference in…
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The 23rd Annual California Charter Schools Conference 03/14/2016 - 03/17/2016
Event 14 Mar, 2016 to 17 Mar, 2016
The mission of the California Charter Schools Conference is to inspire academic excellence, operational integrity and unity among charter schools throughout California. The annual… Read more
The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis
ReportsTodd Ziebarth and Louann Bierlein Palmer, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools07 Mar, 2016
The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis evaluates the health of the charter public school movement in key states across the country. Following… Read more
School Spotlight: Alternatives to Suspension / Expulsion
ReportsCarlyn Obringer02 Mar, 2016
This School Spotlight chronicles five California charter schools’ experiences implementing alternatives to the traditional suspensions/expulsion model, in an effort to keep… Read more
Startup teacher education: A fresh take on teacher credentialing
ReportsThomas Arnett, Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation01 Mar, 2016
As education reformers across the country are working to improve student outcomes at scale, many are focusing on improving the teaching force. This case study describes how three… Read more
The Tennessee Achievement School District: Race, History, and The Dilemma of Public Engagement
ReportsJoshua L. Glazer and Cori Egan26 Feb, 2016
In this report, researchers at George Washington University focus primarily on the challenges the Achievement School District is seeing in garnering community support.
A New Wave of School Integration
ReportsHalley Potter and Kimberly Quick, with Elizabeth Davies, The Century Foundation09 Feb, 2016
Students in racially and socioeconomically integrated schools experience academic, cognitive, and social benefits that are not available to students in racially isolated, high-… Read more
Harvesting Success: Charter Schools in Rural America
ReportsMukta Pandit, Ibtissam Ezzeddine05 Feb, 2016
While urban charter schools are achieving impressive gains, can charter schools improve outcomes for rural America? This topic is an important one with more than 11 million… Read more
A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement
ReportsHalley Potter and Kimberly Quick, with Elizabeth Davies, The Century Foundation03 Feb, 2016
Enrollment in charter public schools has grown by 250,000 students in the 2015-16 school year, and more than 400 new charter public schools have opened their doors, according to,… Read more
Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws, 2016
ReportsNational Alliance For Public Charter Schools20 Jan, 2016
2015 has proved to be another active year for charter public school legislation across the country. For starters, we saw significant activity regarding potential enabling… Read more
Turnaround Case Study: Cornerstone Prep
Case Study 19 Jan, 2016
Grades Served: PreK-5
Number of Students: 450
% of students who receive free or reduced meals: 99%
% of students with disabilities: 15%
% of English learners: 5%
Cornerstone… Read more