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Identifying Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools Part 1: The Role and Perspective of Charter School Authorizers
Indicators of Distress and What They Mean in the Charter Sector: A Webinar for Charter Sector Stakeholders Introducing…
The Death Spiral: Identifying Early Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools (A Conversation with Authorizers)
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Charter School Financial Management Guide
Toolkits25 May, 2016
This updated 2015 guide features planning tools for boards, highlighting important considerations.
Rethinking School Discipline
Webinar 07 May, 2016
This resource includes three short videos illustrating the importance of why changing punitive discipline practices is important, how schools and districts could go about change,… Read more
Authorizer Evaluation Summary: An Analysis of Evaluations of Authorizer Quality
ReportsNational Charter School Resource Center06 May, 2016
With 42 states and Washington D.C. now authorizing nearly 6,700 public charter schools that enroll approximately 3 million children (NAPCS, 2016), ensuring charter school quality… Read more
A Step Up: How Charter Schools Provide Higher Levels of California Public University Access
ReportsCalifornia Charter School Association19 Apr, 2016
Report includes first-of-its-kind dataset combining data from the University of California (UC) system, the Cal State University (CSU) system, and all California public high… Read more
How to Recruit High-Performing Charter Management Organizations to a New Region
ReportsCalifornia Charter School Association29 Mar, 2016
How to Recruit High-Performing Charter Management Organizations to a New Region: Results from the 2015 CMO Survey is designed to help policymakers and community leaders around the… Read more
DC PCSB Best Practices and Resource Guide
ReportsDC Public Charter School Board14 Mar, 2016
The District of Columbia Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is one of the nation’s leading charter school authorizers. PCSB oversees 60 Washington, DC charter schools across 109… Read more
Authorizing Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future
ReportsThe National Association of Charter School Authorizers09 Mar, 2016
A new report released today by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) finds authorizer shopping—when a charter school chooses or changes its authorizer… 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
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
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