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Identifying Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools, Part 2: The Roles and Perspectives of Charter School Leaders and Board Members
Reports04 Oct, 2021
Although school failure and school improvement are complex challenges that look different in different contexts, patterns and trends associated with schools in distress are emerging. This… Read more

Identifying Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools Part 1: The Role and Perspective of Charter School Authorizers
Reports21 Sep, 2020
Identifying Indicators of Distress in Charter Schools labels and categorizes the indicators of distress that authorizers encounter as a school’s quality begins to decline. This report can… Read more

Charter School Turnaround at University Preparatory Schools
Case Study26 Sep, 2018
“College starts in kindergarten.” That is the motto of University Preparatory Schools (University Prep) public charter school network in Denver, CO, where scholars in grades K-5 visit a… Read more

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 new… Read more

Lights Off: Practice and Impact of Closing Low-Performing Schools
Reports24 Aug, 2017
For decades, communities across the country have grappled with the problem of public K-12 schools that do not deliver high-quality education to the students they serve. After more than a… Read more

7 Tenets for Sustainable School Turnaround
ReportsScott Sargrad, Samantha Batel, Karen Hawley Miles, and Karen Baroody; Center for American Progress13 Sep, 2016
To this end, in January 2016, the Center for American Progress and Education Resource Strategies, or ERS—a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving urban schools—brought together… Read more

DC Public Charter School Board
Case Study14 Apr, 2016
The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) recently visited the DC Public Charter School Board (DC PCSB) to learn about its authorizing process, and more specifically, to… Read more
Chartering Turnaround: Leveraging Public Charter School Autonomy to Address Failure
ReportsJulie Corbett, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools12 Aug, 2015
Persistently low-achieving public schools around the country have received $5.8 billion from the federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) program, in addition to districts and state funds,… Read more
Strategies for Community Engagement in School Turnaround
ReportsThe Reform Support Network02 Mar, 2015
Across the United States, school districts and State education agencies (SEAs) have turned their attention to the chronically lowest performing schools and drop out factories, investing… 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.