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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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Can You Afford That New Charter School Facility?
ToolkitsCharter School Growth05 Jan, 2016
CSGF offers a tool that boards can use to answer the question: “how much building can I afford?”.
Differing Effects from Diverse Charter Schools: Uneven Student Selection and Achievement Growth in Los Angeles
ReportsUniversity of California, Berkeley14 Dec, 2015
The Los Angeles Unified School District hosts more charter schools than any system in the nation. After tracking more than 66,000 sampled students over a four-year period, these… Read more
How School Choice Friendly is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
ReportsThomas B. Fordham Institute09 Dec, 2015
Using nearly fifty markers of “choice friendliness,” this report from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute shows which of thirty American cities are the best and worst for school… Read more
On the Road to Better Accessibility, Autonomy, and Accountability: State Policy Analysis 2015
ReportsNational Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA)08 Dec, 2015
Across America, there is much debate about charter schools. Some of that debate is about the existence of charter schools and whether there should be more or fewer of them. More… Read more
Growing Movement: America’s Largest Charter School Communities
ReportsNational Alliance for Public Charter Schools10 Nov, 2015
In this report, the National Alliance collected public school enrollment data for the 2014– 15 school year to identify communities across the country where the highest proportions… Read more
Is Détente Possible? District-charter school relations in four cities
ReportsDaniela Doyle, Christen Holly, and Bryan C. Hassel, Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact04 Nov, 2015
Whether you think the end game of the current “mixed economy” of district and charter schools should be an all-charter system (as in New Orleans) or a dual model (as in Washington… Read more
Getting Lost While Trying to Follow the Money: Special Education Finance in Charter Schools
ReportsLauren Morando Rhim, Paul O’Neill, Amy Ruck, Kathryn Huber, and Sivan Tuchman, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools 02 Nov, 2015
In developing the brief, the goal was to present a clear and succinct point-in-time description of how special education is funded in charter schools to empower key stakeholders… Read more
TCSA Quality Portal
Toolkits29 Oct, 2015
Mukta Pandit presented an introduction to the Texas Charter Schools Association quality portal with Laura Kelly from the Texas Charter School Association. This dashboard is a… Read more
The Next Wave Of Innovation In U.S. Charter Schools
ReportsThe Mind Trust and Public Impact28 Oct, 2015
In their first 24 years, public charter schools have demonstrated that they can be a significant force for improvement in U.S. public education. Despite successful growth in… Read more
Inside Online Charter Schools
ReportsBrian Gill, Lucas Walsh, Claire Smither Wulsin, Holly Matulewicz, Veronica Severn, Eric Grau, Amanda Lee, and Tess Kerwin (Mathematica Policy Research)27 Oct, 2015
Online charter schools—also known as virtual charters or cyber charters—are publicly funded schools of choice that deliver student instruction via telecommunications. Today,… Read more