Sample records for chartering

  1. 14 CFR 380.34 - Security and depository agreements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... charter operator for that charter. (2) The direct air carrier and charter operator or foreign charter... operator or foreign charter operator shall furnish a security agreement in an amount for not less than the... charter operator with respect to the charter. (b) The direct air carrier and the charter operator or...

  2. Can a Charter School Not Be a Charter School?

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    Tell, Shawgi

    2015-01-01

    Charter schools are, by definition, contract schools. Charter means contract. To understand this fundamental feature of charter schools and the limits that stem from this aspect, this paper analyzes the topic of contracts and what contracting means for coming to terms with charter schools. This analysis locates charter schools in the realm of the…

  3. Effective Charter Schools and Charter School Systems

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    Lawton, Stephen B.

    2009-01-01

    The purpose of this synthesis of the literature on charter school effectiveness is to develop a research agenda on the topic and to propose action that will lead to improved performance of charter schools. To accomplish these goals, background information is first provided including: a definition of charter schools; statistics on charter schools;…

  4. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Albuquerque

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    Hesla, Kevin; Johnson, Jessica; Callahan, Kelly; Roskom, Greta; Ziebarth, Todd

    2017-01-01

    In 2016, the National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC), the Colorado League of Charter Schools (the League), the New Mexico Coalition for Charter Schools (NMCCS), and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (the Alliance) collaborated to collect data and information about charter school facilities and facilities expenditures in the…

  5. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Ohio

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    Hesla, Kevin; Johnson, Jessica M.; Chambers, Darlene; Truett, Jesse; Conry, Julie; Hatt, Trint; Holliman, RaShaun; Ziebarth, Todd

    2016-01-01

    In the spring of 2015, the National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC), the Colorado League of Charter Schools (the League), the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (OAPCS), and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (the Alliance) collaborated to collect data and information about charter school facilities and facilities…

  6. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Delaware

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    Hesla, Kevin; Johnson, Jessica M.; Massett, Kendall; Ziebarth, Todd

    2018-01-01

    In the spring of 2016, the National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC), the Colorado League of Charter Schools (the League), the Delaware Charter Schools Network (DCSN), and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (the Alliance) collaborated to collect data and information about charter school facilities and facilities expenditures in…

  7. Charter School Primer. Peter Lang Primer. Volume 34

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    Tryjankowski, Anne Marie

    2012-01-01

    The "Charter School Primer" presents an overview of public charter schools in the United States. The book discusses what charter schools are; the history of public charter school choice in the United States; the role of teachers, parents, boards, and unions in the charter school movement; and gives examples of innovations in education made…

  8. Seeing Charters Differently: A New Approach to National Comparisons of Charter and Traditional Public Schools

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    Malkus, Nat

    2016-01-01

    The national debate over charter schooling has become increasingly heated in 2016, driven by polarized narratives about the students charters typically serve. Opponents argue charters cream-skim more advantaged students, while proponents hold they primarily serve historically disadvantaged students. National evidence on charter student selectivity…

  9. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Idaho

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2012

    2012-01-01

    In spring of 2012, the Idaho Charter School Network, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average spending for facilities out of charter schools' operating budgets in Idaho.…

  10. Leading Charters: How Charter School Administrators Define Their Roles and Their Ability to Lead

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    Carpenter, Dick Michael, II; Peak, Charity

    2013-01-01

    Charter schools have been studied from numerous perspectives. One topic that remains under-researched, however, is charter school leadership. Therefore, we examine how charter administrators define their leadership roles and their ability to lead. Results indicate that charter principals see three primary functions in their leadership--building…

  11. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Massachusetts

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013

    2013-01-01

    In the spring of 2012, the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect data that would reveal and accurately portray the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average spending for facilities out of charter schools' operating…

  12. Where Does the Money Go? Budget Expenditure Allocations in Charter Schools

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    Carpenter, Dick M., II

    2013-01-01

    This study examines the expenditure allocation pattern of charter schools in Texas and compares those patterns to non-charter public schools to determine if the autonomy afforded to charter schools results in significant differences. Findings indicate the allocation patterns of charter schools do differ from those of non-charter public schools.…

  13. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Rhode Island

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013

    2013-01-01

    In winter of 2013, the Rhode Island League of Charter Schools, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average amount of operating funds spent by charter schools on facilities.…

  14. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in New Jersey

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013

    2013-01-01

    In spring of 2012, the New Jersey Charter Schools Association, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average spending for facilities out of charter schools' operating budgets in New…

  15. Un-"Chartered" Waters: Balancing Montessori Curriculum and Accountability Measures in a Charter School

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    Scott, Catherine M.

    2017-01-01

    More than 6,000 charter schools exist in the United States, and of these 120 are Montessori charter schools. When studying charter school practices, researchers often examine issues such as performance accountability measures and effectiveness of charter school curricula. In doing so, the outcomes often overlook the challenges for teachers as they…

  16. What Does Charter School Mean to You? A Look at Louisiana's Charter Enrollment by Charter Type

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    Crutchfield, Jandel

    2015-01-01

    This article examines the intersection of race, socioeconomic status (SES), and charter type/admission practices in Louisiana charter schools. This study used publicly available Department of Education data to compile the sample of charter school demographic information. A one-way Multiple Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) was conducted using race and…

  17. A Different Type of Charter School: In Prestige Charters, a Rise in Cachet Equals a Decline in Access

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    Brown, Elizabeth; Makris, Molly Vollman

    2018-01-01

    This paper seeks to elucidate a specific type of charter school. While much has been written about school choice and the expanding charter school segment, a growing and important number of charter schools do not fit in to the common understanding of these schools. Distinct from many of their counterparts, "prestige charter schools" have…

  18. 46 CFR 356.39 - Charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... REGISTERED LENGTH TO OBTAIN A FISHERY ENDORSEMENT TO THE VESSEL'S DOCUMENTATION Charters, Management... bareboat charterer of Fishing Industry Vessel must submit an Affidavit of U.S. Citizenship to the Citizenship Approval Officer for review and approval prior to entering into such charter. (2) Time charters...

  19. 46 CFR 356.39 - Charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... REGISTERED LENGTH TO OBTAIN A FISHERY ENDORSEMENT TO THE VESSEL'S DOCUMENTATION Charters, Management... bareboat charterer of Fishing Industry Vessel must submit an Affidavit of U.S. Citizenship to the Citizenship Approval Officer for review and approval prior to entering into such charter. (2) Time charters...

  20. 76 FR 25525 - National Charter Schools Week, 2011

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-05-05

    ... Charter Schools Week, 2011 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation In communities... of students, parents, teachers, and administrators. During National Charter Schools Week, we... Charter School Week. I commend our Nation's charter schools, teachers, and administrators, and I call on...

  1. Charter School Teacher Job Satisfaction

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    Roch, Christine H.; Sai, Na

    2017-01-01

    We examine whether working conditions in charter schools and traditional public schools lead to different levels of job satisfaction among teachers. We distinguish among charter schools managed by for-profit education management organizations (EMOs) and non-profit charter management organizations (CMOs) and stand-alone charter schools. We…

  2. Antecedents of Charter School Success in New York State: Charter School Management Agencies and Additional Factors That Affect English/Language Arts Test Scores in Elementary Charter Schools

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    Schwarz, Jennifer

    2013-01-01

    Charter schools frequently receive public as well as federal attention, and there is a growing body of research becoming available examining charter schools. With all this research there is still a need for further studies which deal specifically with antecedents of charter school success. This study examined factors contributing toward the…

  3. Charter Schools: Education Could Do More to Assist Charter Schools with Applying for Discretionary Grants. Report to Congressional Requesters. GAO-11-89

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    Ashby, Cornelia M.

    2010-01-01

    The number of charter schools is growing, spurred by demand for innovation and federal incentives, such as the Race to the Top Fund, which favors states supportive of charter schools. However, states often define charter schools differently than traditional public schools. Some charter schools operate as a school district, while others are part of…

  4. Charter School Authorizer Funding. Policy Guide

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    Cass, Rebecca

    2009-01-01

    As representatives of the public's interests in public charter schools, authorizers lie at the foundation of a quality charter school sector. The core functions of authorizing--charter school approval, oversight and evaluation--are essential in promoting and upholding charter school quality. To carry out these functions professionally and…

  5. Assessing the Implementation of Ghana's Patient Charter

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    Abekah-Nkrumah, Gordon; Manu, Abubakar; Atinga, Roger Ayimbillah

    2010-01-01

    Purpose: This paper seeks to assess the implementation of Ghana's Patients' Charter by investigating the level of awareness and knowledge of the Charter's content, some socio-demographic factors that may influence awareness and knowledge of the Charter and how providers have discharged their responsibilities under the Charter.…

  6. 77 FR 12553 - Sunshine Act Meetings

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-03-01

    ... Discussion on Agency Staffing V. State Advisory Committee Issues: Review of two Hawaii SAC applicants Re-chartering the Indiana SAC Re-chartering the District of Columbia SAC Re-chartering the Utah SAC Re-chartering the Maine SAC Re-chartering the Nevada SAC VI. Adjourn Meeting CONTACT PERSON FOR FURTHER...

  7. Leadership Characteristics and Practices in South Carolina Charter Schools. REL 2017-188

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    Rudo, Zena H.; Partridge, Mark A.

    2016-01-01

    Charter school stakeholders in South Carolina, including officials at the South Carolina Department of Education, personnel at the Public Charter School Alliance of South Carolina, and leaders of South Carolina charter schools, expressed interest in understanding the leadership characteristics and practices of charter school leaders across the…

  8. Explaining Charter School Effectiveness. NBER Working Paper No. 17332

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    Angrist, Joshua D.; Pathak, Parag A.; Walters, Christopher R.

    2011-01-01

    Estimates using admissions lotteries suggest that urban charter schools boost student achievement, while charter schools in other settings do not. We explore student-level and school-level explanations for these differences using a large sample of Massachusetts charter schools. Our results show that urban charter schools boost achievement well…

  9. Designing Smart Charter School Caps

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    Dillon, Erin

    2010-01-01

    In 2007, Andrew J. Rotherham proposed a new approach to the contentious issue of charter school caps, the statutory limits on charter school growth in place in several states. Rotherham's proposal, termed "smart charter school caps," called for quality sensitive caps that allow the expansion of high-performing charter schools while also…

  10. Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization.

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    Fuller, Bruce, Ed.

    Deepening disaffection with public schools has inspired flight to private schools, home schooling, and charter schools. At present, there are about 1,700 charter schools, with total enrollments estimated to reach one million soon. This book looks at six strikingly different charter schools, including an evangelical home-schooling charter in…

  11. Charter Schools. Trends and Issues.

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    Hadderman, Margaret

    This document looks at the increasing popularity of charter schools for intradistrict school choice. During 2000, about 1,700 charter schools were serving some 250,000 students in the United States. Charter schools typically begin as preexisting schools or as "startups" born with charters. States seem to have ambivalent attitudes toward charter…

  12. Utah Charter School Handbook, 2005

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    Utah State Office of Education, 2005

    2005-01-01

    This handbook is an important reference for individuals seeking to understand charter schools in Utah. Information contained here will be especially useful for interested parties seeking to start a charter school, as well as current charter school operators. This handbook is intended to be a general reference regarding charter schools. The…

  13. Marketing Education and the Promise of Charter Schools

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    Abdalla, Mohamed

    2017-01-01

    The debate on charter schools is attributed to doubts that such schools are improving the performance of their students. While proponents of charter schools praise their flexibility and creativity, opponents of charter schools posited that charter schools increased segregation, and skimmed the cream of the crop from traditional schools (Miron,…

  14. Common Traits of Successful U.S. Charter Schools

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    Stetson, Ranae

    2013-01-01

    Every state has different laws that govern its charter schools, which makes a consistent definition of charter schools a little more difficult. However, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools website (www.publiccharters.org) notes that definitions of charter schools in most states generally share these characteristics: (1) They are…

  15. Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation

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    Frankenberg, Erica; Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Wang, Jia

    2011-01-01

    The political popularity of charter schools is unmistakable. This article explores the relationship between charter schools and segregation across the country, in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students in 2007-08. The descriptive analysis of the charter school…

  16. 46 CFR 68.103 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... equipment in support of exploration, exploitation, or production of offshore mineral or energy resources... demise charter, a time charter, a voyage charter, a space charter, and a contract of affreightment...

  17. 46 CFR 68.103 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... equipment in support of exploration, exploitation, or production of offshore mineral or energy resources... demise charter, a time charter, a voyage charter, a space charter, and a contract of affreightment...

  18. 46 CFR 68.103 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... equipment in support of exploration, exploitation, or production of offshore mineral or energy resources... demise charter, a time charter, a voyage charter, a space charter, and a contract of affreightment...

  19. 46 CFR 68.103 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... equipment in support of exploration, exploitation, or production of offshore mineral or energy resources... demise charter, a time charter, a voyage charter, a space charter, and a contract of affreightment...

  20. 46 CFR 68.103 - Definitions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... equipment in support of exploration, exploitation, or production of offshore mineral or energy resources... demise charter, a time charter, a voyage charter, a space charter, and a contract of affreightment...

  1. School/Parent Partnership, Post-Katrina: Lake Forest Elementary Charter School

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    Kohler, Maxie; Early, Mardele; Christensen, Lois; Aldridge, Jerry

    2013-01-01

    Throughout the United States, the "charter school" movement is being discussed and implemented in numerous venues and configurations, and researchers have considered the pros and cons of these schools. One example of an exemplary charter school is Lake Forest Elementary Charter School in New Orleans, Louisiana. This charter school (www.…

  2. The Policy Framework for Online Charter Schools

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    Pazhouh, Rosa; Lake, Robin; Miller, Larry

    2015-01-01

    Online charter schools, charter schools that primarily utilize remote online instruction, have been both popular and controversial. As of October 2015, fully online charter schools operate in 26 (soon to be 27) states and enrolled approximately 200,000 students in the 2013-14 school year, comprising over 8 percent of all public charter school…

  3. Charters as a Driver of Resegregation

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    Ayscue, Jenn; Nelson, Amy Hawn; Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Giersch, Jason; Bottia, Martha Cecilia

    2018-01-01

    Expanding school choice through charter schools is among the top education priorities of the current federal administration as well as many state legislatures. Amid this push to expand the charter sector, it is essential to understand how charter schools affect students who attend them, as well as the ways charter schools impact traditional public…

  4. Who Watches the Watchers? How States Evaluate Charter School Authorizers

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    Smith, Nelson

    2017-01-01

    Charter schools have thrust state boards of education into new roles. Some directly authorize charters, some do so only on appeal, and some do neither. This article examines a relatively recent addition to this task list: evaluation and oversight of charter authorizers, the entities charged with approving and monitoring charter schools.

  5. The Impact of an Urban Charter School Leadership Training Program on Participants

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    Perry, Jack Lamar

    2013-01-01

    This study explored the experiences, perspectives, and recommendations of participants in a charter school training program in order to gauge whether the training adequately prepared them for charter school leadership. Charter school leaders are prepared for leadership by university programs, non-profit programs, and charter schools themselves. A…

  6. Charter Schools: Creating Hope and Opportunity for American Education. The Jossey-Bass Education Series.

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    Nathan, Joe

    Charter schools are public, nonsectarian schools that operate under a written contract from a local school board or other organization. This book describes the history of the charter-school movement and the patterns that current charter-school advocates may find themselves repeating; offers examples of existing charter schools, enabling…

  7. Charter School Barriers: Do Enrollment Requirements Limit Student Access to Charter Schools?

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    Weiler, Spencer C.; Vogel, Linda R.

    2015-01-01

    The potential of the charter school movement to positively influence traditional public education lies in the ability of charter school officials to provide all students access to the curriculum. The aim of this study was to document potential registration and enrollment barriers incorporated into the practices of Colorado charter schools. The…

  8. 77 FR 44475 - Final Definitions, Requirements, and Selection Criteria; Charter Schools Program (CSP)-Charter...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-07-30

    ... to the field of special education. Discussion: We agree that improving access to charter schools for..., standards, assessments, special education services and access to charter schools by students with.... Department of Education's Web site ( ed.gov ), data.ed.gov , the National Charter School Resource Center Web...

  9. When the "Dream" Turns into a Nightmare: Life and Death of Voyager Charter School

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    Karanxha, Zorka

    2013-01-01

    Purpose: This article highlights the complexity of accountability issues associated with one charter school from the charter application process, operation, and functioning of the external mechanism and the internal mechanism to hold the charter school accountable, closure of the school, and consequences of the charter school's closure on its…

  10. 75 FR 1595 - Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-01-12

    ... Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska AGENCY: National Marine... charter halibut permit under the Limited Access System for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska... access system for charter vessels in the guided sport fishery for Pacific halibut in waters of...

  11. Evaluation of New Texas Charter Schools: Final Report (2007-10)

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    Maloney, Catherine; Sheehan, Daniel; Rainey, Katharine

    2011-01-01

    Since 1994, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE) has provided funding to new charter schools through Charter School Program (CSP) grants designed to provide support for the planning and implementation of effective new charter programs. Grants are awarded to state education agencies, which then provide funding to approved charter schools through…

  12. Supporting Charter School Excellence through Quality Authorizing

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    US Department of Education, 2007

    2007-01-01

    Most policymakers, charter school operators, and others immersed in the charter school movement since it began in the early 1990s have focused their attention primarily on charter schools, not on the public bodies that license these schools to operate. As the charter school movement has grown, there has been increasing recognition that effective…

  13. Issues 2016: Charter Schools Are Better at Retaining Hard-to-Educate Students. Reality Check

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    Winters, Marcus A.

    2016-01-01

    Though charter schools are revolutionizing U.S. urban education, critics often assert that charters post higher test scores than surrounding traditional public schools because they systematically remove their most difficult-to-educate students. To substantiate this claim, charter critics note that smaller percentages of charter students are…

  14. Charter School Oversight: The New Frontier

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    Farland, Stephanie Medrano

    2011-01-01

    Some areas of charter school oversight are easy to overlook. This article provides a few practical tips for ensuring that legal and moral obligations are met and charter schools are "delivering the goods." Effective charter oversight takes time and diligence. As many districts know, closing or not renewing a charter school can be painful…

  15. The Business of Charter Schooling: Understanding the Policies That Charter Operators Use for Financial Benefit

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    Baker, Bruce; Miron, Gary

    2015-01-01

    This research brief details some of the prominent ways that individuals, companies, and organizations secure financial gain and generate profit by controlling and running charter schools. To illustrate how charter school policy functions to promote privatization and profiteering, the authors explore differences between charter schools and…

  16. Market-Based and Authorizer-Based Accountability Demands and the Implications for Charter School Leadership

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    Blitz, Mark H.

    2011-01-01

    Charter school research has examined the relationship between charter school mission and issues of school accountability. However, there is a lack of research focusing on how charter school leaders frame and solve problems regarding multiple accountability demands. Given this gap, I investigate the question: How do charter school leaders…

  17. Details from the Dashboard: Charter Schools by Geographic Region

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2012

    2012-01-01

    While a majority of charter schools nationwide operate in urban and suburban areas, charter schools exist in all corners of the nation, and are expanding into all types of communities. This "Details from the Dashboard" report presents statistics on the number of charter schools and students enrolled in charter schools by the four geographic…

  18. 34 CFR 226.21 - How may charter schools use these funds?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false How may charter schools use these funds? 226.21 Section... SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM What Conditions Must Be Met by a Grantee? § 226.21 How may charter schools use these funds? (a) Charter schools...

  19. 34 CFR 226.21 - How may charter schools use these funds?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false How may charter schools use these funds? 226.21 Section... SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM What Conditions Must Be Met by a Grantee? § 226.21 How may charter schools use these funds? (a) Charter schools...

  20. 34 CFR 300.209 - Treatment of charter schools and their students.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 34 Education 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Treatment of charter schools and their students. 300... of charter schools and their students. (a) Rights of children with disabilities. Children with disabilities who attend public charter schools and their parents retain all rights under this part. (b) Charter...

  1. An Analysis of School-to-Work Implementation in Selected Charter Schools. Research Report.

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    Goodman, Gregory

    Three charter schools in southern Arizona--Pimeria Alta High School, Vail Charter High School, and VISION High School--were profiled to ascertain the role of school-to-work (STW) in charter schools. The profiles focused on the following: students' and parents' characteristics and reasons for selecting a charter school; and available facilities,…

  2. 75 FR 13735 - Office of Innovation and Improvement; Overview Information; Charter Schools Program (CSP): State...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-03-23

    ... financial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter schools, and to... process for the denial of an application for a charter school. Priority 4--High Degree of Autonomy (10 points). The State ensures that each charter school has a high degree of autonomy over the charter school...

  3. Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards

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    Frankenberg, Erica; Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve; Wang, Jia

    2010-01-01

    Seven years after the Civil Rights Project first documented extensive patterns of charter school segregation, the charter sector continues to stratify students by race, class and possibly language. This study is released at a time of mounting federal pressure to expand charter schools, despite on-going and accumulating evidence of charter school…

  4. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in South Carolina

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013

    2013-01-01

    In Spring of 2013, the Public Charter School Alliance of South Carolina, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average amount of operating funds spent on facilities. Collectively,…

  5. Investigating Leadership in Charter Schools: An Examination of the Leadership Traits of Executive Directors in Successful Charter Schools

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    Bloomfield, Brian D.

    2013-01-01

    This study was a qualitative exploration of educational leadership within charter schools in an attempt to identify traits demonstrated by executive directors of successful charter schools. Because much research has been conducted to identify trends in educational leadership, but comparable little within the unique context of charter schools, and…

  6. 12 CFR 704.17 - State-chartered corporate credit unions.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... provided under the laws of the state in which it was chartered. (b) A state-chartered corporate credit... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false State-chartered corporate credit unions. 704.17... CORPORATE CREDIT UNIONS § 704.17 State-chartered corporate credit unions. (a) This part does not expand the...

  7. Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter Public School Laws. Eighth Edition

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    Ziebarth, Todd; Palmer, Louann Bierlein; Schultz, Emily

    2017-01-01

    This eighth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. This year's rankings are the first that measure each state's charter school law against the National Alliance's revised model charter school law, "A New…

  8. Some Economic Guidelines for Design of a Charter School District

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    Levin, Henry M.

    2012-01-01

    As the number of charter schools has grown nationally, there is increasing discussion of the consolidation of such schools into charter districts in which all schools would be charter schools from which parents would have the freedom to choose the school that they wished their student to attend. A major question is how such a charter school…

  9. 76 FR 19708 - Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-04-08

    .... 110325225-1224-02] RIN 0648-BA96 Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels... regulations that apply to vessels operating in the guided sport (charter) fishery for halibut in International... charter vessels in the guided sport fishery, codified at 50 CFR 300.67. Charter Halibut Limited Access...

  10. How Many Charter Schools Is Just Right?

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    Education Next, 2015

    2015-01-01

    In dozens of U.S. cities, more than one in five students now attend charter schools. Charter school expansion has fueled an increasingly energetic discussion among advocates: How large a share of urban schools should be charters? Is the ideal New Orleans, where nearly all public schools are charter schools? Or does that create demands on charters…

  11. Charter Schools' Performance and Accountability: A Disconnect. Policy Brief

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    Bracey, Gerald W.

    2005-01-01

    This report argues that evidence exists for the case that the charter school movement is largely a failed reform. The report puts the charter school movement in the context of dissatisfaction with public schools and the public sector in general. It then describes the claims for charters made by the early charter school advocates, emphasizing the…

  12. The Slowdown in Bay Area Charter School Growth: Causes and Solutions

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    Lake, Robin; Cobb, Trey; Sharma, Roohi; Opalka, Alice

    2018-01-01

    Since the first charter school law passed in 1991, U.S. charter schools have enjoyed steady and relatively rapid growth, now serving more than three million students nationally. In more than 58 cities, charter schools represent more than 20 percent of all public school enrollment. In seven cities, charter schools enroll more than 40 percent of…

  13. Games Charter Opponents Play: How Local School Boards--and Their Allies--Block the Competition

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    Williams, Joe

    2007-01-01

    Considerable attention has been paid to the most blatant barriers that public charter schools face. By lobbying against good charter legislation and fair funding, financing anti-charter studies and propaganda, filing lawsuits, and engaging the public battle of ideas, teacher unions and other charter opponents openly wage what might be called an…

  14. Mission vs. Mandate: How Charter School Leaders Conceptualize and Address Market-Based and Performance-Based Accountability Demands

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    Blitz, Mark H.

    2011-01-01

    Charter school research has examined the relationship between charter school mission and issues of school accountability. However, there is a lack of research focusing on how charter school leaders frame and solve problems regarding multiple accountability demands. Given this gap, I investigate the question: How do charter school leaders…

  15. The Effects of Charter Schools, Race, Socioeconomics, and Teacher Characteristics in Wisconsin's Urban School Districts

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    Vick, Matthew E.

    2009-01-01

    The charter school movement focuses on the creation of public schools governed by a legally-binding agreement known as a charter. Charter schools are touted as allowing for innovation and creativity in exchange for increased accountability. The state of Wisconsin allows its school districts to authorize the formation charter schools. School…

  16. 14 CFR 380.17 - Charters conducted by educational institutions.

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    2010-01-01

    ... (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) SPECIAL REGULATIONS PUBLIC CHARTERS Conditions and Limitations § 380.17 Charters... study abroad which is of at least 4 weeks duration. The charter group may also include a student...

  17. Pushed Out? Low-Performing Students and New York City Charter Schools. Civic Report No. 95

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    Winters, Marcus A.

    2015-01-01

    The significant growth of charter schools in the United States has brought praise for the excellent results achieved by some schools as well as criticism that charter schools may not be serving the most disadvantaged students. Critics of charter schools, in New York City and elsewhere, commonly assert that charters' (often) strong academic…

  18. The Politics of Educational Reform: The Alberta Charter School Experiment 20 Years Later

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    Bosetti, Lynn; Butterfield, Phil

    2016-01-01

    In this paper we examine the public charter school movement in the Province of Alberta, Canada over the past 20 years to determine how charter school policy and regulations have limited and controlled the impact of charter schools on public education. Specifically we focus on the extent to which charter schools in Alberta fulfilled the aims and…

  19. Building Excellence: How Helping Charters Access Facilities Can Improve Opportunity for Idaho Kids

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    Robson, Kelly; Squire, Juliet

    2016-01-01

    To better understand charter leaders' experiences acquiring facilities, the authors conducted a survey of all charter school leaders in the state of Idaho. The leaders of 26 brick-and-mortar charter schools responded, representing 65 percent of all such charter schools in the state. The survey gathered a number of facilities-related data points,…

  20. New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools: More Evidence That Cream-Skimming Is Not Driving Charters' Success. Report 33

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    Winters, Marcus A.

    2017-01-01

    Critics of charter schools in New York City, America's largest school district, often allege that charters score better on standardized tests, on average, than traditional public schools because charters "cream-skim" (i.e., attract) the brightest, most motivated, students. Yet this accusation neglects the fact that not all traditional…

  1. Vision and Reality: A First-Year Look at California's Charter Schools.

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    Dianda, Marcella R.; Corwin, Ronald G.

    California's charter-school legislation took effect January 1, 1993, and authorized the creation of up to 100 charter schools. By the end of the year, 44 charter schools were either operating or being planned. This document offers an initial look at California's charter schools. A total of 34 schools responded to a survey of the state's 44 charter…

  2. Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement. Critical Issues in Educational Leadership Series.

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    Murphy, Joseph; Shiffman, Catherine Dunn

    This volume presents a "big picture" perspective on the charter-school movement. It provides a definition of charter schools, what they are, and where they fit on the landscape of school reform; an explanation of why charters enjoy widespread bipartisan support; a look at how charters are situated in the larger school-reform movement of the last…

  3. "It's Not Easy Being Green": Charter Schools, the Arts, and Students with Diverse Needs

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    Hammel, Alice; Fischer, Kelly

    2014-01-01

    At the heart of current education reform is the charter school movement. Charter schools, their role in the New Orleans, Louisiana, educational community, and the effect of charter schools on students with special needs are the focus of this article. New Orleans, Louisiana, has the largest number of students attending public charter schools in the…

  4. Better Choices: Charter Incubation as a Strategy for Improving the Charter School Sector. Policy Brief

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    Ableidinger, Joe; Kowal, Julie

    2011-01-01

    The twenty years since Minnesota passed the nation's first charter school law have seen a great expansion in school choice, with charters operating in all but ten states and enrolling nearly two million students nationwide. Yet while parents now enjoy more schooling options for their children, a disappointing number of charter schools fail to…

  5. Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Public Charter School Laws. Ninth Annual Edition

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    Ziebarth, Todd; Palmer, Louann Bierlein

    2018-01-01

    This ninth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. For the second year in a row, the 2018 rankings measure each state's charter school law against the National Alliance's updated model charter school law, "New…

  6. Charter Schools and Urban Education Improvement: A Comparison of Newark's District and Charter Schools

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    Barr, Jason M.; Sadovnik, Alan R.; Visconti, Louisa

    2006-01-01

    This article compares student achievement of fourth graders in charter schools and district public schools in Newark, New Jersey. We find that Newark and New Jersey's charter schools mirror the educational inequalities of the state as a whole, as well as its Abbott Districts. The data indicate that charter schools are similar to district urban…

  7. Governance and Administrative Infrastructure in New York City Charter Schools. Going Charter Year Three Findings. Charter School Research Project.

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    Ascher, Carol; Echazarreta, Juan; Jacobowitz, Robin; McBride, Yolanda; Troy, Tammi

    In this final report of a 3-year evaluation, researchers explored the developing infrastructure in New York City charter schools and identified areas in which school stakeholders--private partners, boards of trustees, school leaders, parents, and teachers--needed support to help charter schools succeed. The study was based on monthly visits to…

  8. Special Education in Charter Schools: A Resource Primer for the State of Maryland

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    Maryland State Department of Education, 2006

    2006-01-01

    In the early 1990's, charter schools were a new concept being implemented by a few states and communities across the country. Today there are over 3,000 charter schools operating in 40 states and the District of Columbia. The growth of charter schools has compelled that we understand what charter schools are and how they impact responsibilities…

  9. Beacon Charter School Needs a School: A Case of Capital Outlay of Charters in a Public District

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    Wronowski, Meredith L.

    2017-01-01

    The case study presented below is a representation of a real-world, ongoing situation involving a public school district's capital outlay for charter schools within its boundaries. One particular charter, Beacon Charter School, was promised a permanent building by the public school district that also acts as its authorizer. However, recent events…

  10. Ripples of Innovation: Charter Schooling in Minnesota, the Nation's First Charter School State

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    Schroeder, Jon

    2004-01-01

    This report traces the origins, evolution and impact of Minnesota's pioneering charter school law--on its own schools, students, and communities and on the development of charter laws in many other states. It notes that, unlike what is now happening elsewhere, new schools are now being chartered at an accelerating pace in Minnesota. And because…

  11. "Chartering" Maryland's Future: Is There an Expanded Role for National Charter Management Organizations in Our Schools? The Abell Report. Volume 28, No. 1

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    Abell Foundation, 2015

    2015-01-01

    Over the past decade, a handful of high performing public charter schools have developed in Baltimore, but the need for high quality educational offerings, particularly for low-income students, remains high. "'Chartering' Maryland's Future: Is There an Expanded Role for National Charter Management Organizations in Our Schools?" considers…

  12. Leadership and Autonomy: An Examination of the Governance and Management Practices of Four Charter Schools in Charleston, South Carolina

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    Bohnstengel, Robert E.

    2012-01-01

    Charter schools are deregulated institutions that are provided considerable autonomy in order to spur innovation, yet little is known about their governance practices. The studies of charter school governance that do exist, however, typically concern cases of charter school failure. The causes of charter school failure are often clear and…

  13. 2016-2017 Annual Report Guidelines for New York State Charter Schools

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    New York State Education Department, 2017

    2017-01-01

    By August 1 of each year, each charter school in New York State is required by law to complete and submit an Annual Report to the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) Charter School Office and to the school's charter entity, and to post the report on the charter school's website. The Annual Report Guidelines include general instructions…

  14. Professional Development that Defies the Formal Construct of Teacher Learning: A Charter School's Commencement

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    Oliver, Rollia Mandrell

    2012-01-01

    In August 2006, in accordance with a recently passed charter school law, a Mid-Atlantic school district opened its first public charter schools. The charter schools' staff had opportunities to exercise autonomy over their instruction and had very little in-service training. This study examined what seven teachers at a newly created charter school…

  15. Details from the Dashboard: Estimated Number of Public Charter Schools & Students, 2014-2015

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2015

    2015-01-01

    During the 2014-15 school year, almost 500 new public charter schools opened. An estimated 348,000 additional students were attending public charter schools in the 2014-15 school year compared with the previous school year. With the addition of new charter schools and students, there are now more than 6,700 public charter schools enrolling about…

  16. Exploring Quality Programs for English Language Learners in Charter Schools: A Framework to Guide Future Research

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    Garcia, Peggie; Morales, P. Zitlali

    2016-01-01

    Although there has been a great deal of debate about the effectiveness of charter schools in the research literature, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to English language learners (ELLs) in charter schools. Moreover, the charter school research has predominantly focused on whether or not charter schools are effective rather than…

  17. Citizen's Charter in a primary health-care setting of Nepal: An accountability tool or a "mere wall poster"?

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    Gurung, Gagan; Gauld, Robin; Hill, Philip C; Derrett, Sarah

    2018-02-01

    Despite some empirical findings on the usefulness of citizen's charters on awareness of rights and services, there is a dearth of literature about charter implementation and impact on health service delivery in low-income settings. To gauge the level of awareness of the Charter within Nepal's primary health-care (PHC) system, perceived impact and factors affecting Charter implementation. Using a case study design, a quantitative survey was administered to 400 participants from 22 of 39 PHC facilities in the Dang District to gauge awareness of the Charter. Additionally, qualitative interviews with 39 key informants were conducted to explore the perceived impact of the Charter and factors affecting its implementation. Few service users (15%) were aware of the existence of the Charter. Among these, a greater proportion were literate, and there were also differences according to ethnicity and occupational group. The Charter was usually not properly displayed and had been implemented with no prior public consultation. It contained information that provided awareness of health facility services, particularly the more educated public, but had limited potential for increasing transparency and holding service providers accountable to citizens. Proper display, consultation with stakeholders, orientation or training and educational factors, follow-up and monitoring, and provision of sanctions were all lacking, negatively influencing the implementation of the Charter. Poor implementation and low public awareness of the Charter limit its usefulness. Provision of sanctions and consultation with citizens in Charter development are needed to expand the scope of Charters from information brochures to tools for accountability. © 2017 The Authors Health Expectations Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

  18. Perspectivas sobre las escuelas charter: Una resena para padres de familia (Perspectives on Charter Schools: A Review for Parents). ERIC Digest.

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    Donahoo, Saran

    Recently, charter schools have gained popularity with parents, students, and others as alternatives to public schools, but what are charter schools and what effects are they having? This Spanish-language Digest defines charter schools and clarifies some of the administrative and legal details surrounding such schools. The Digest also lays out some…

  19. What Do Parents Think of Their Children's Schools? "EdNext" Poll Compares Charter, District, and Private Schools Nationwide

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    West, Martin R.; Peterson, Paul E.; Barrows, Samuel

    2017-01-01

    Over the past 25 years, charter schools have offered an increasing number of families an alternative to their local district schools. The charter option has proven particularly popular in large cities, but charter-school growth is often constrained by state laws that limit the number of students the sector can serve. The charter sector is the most…

  20. High-Quality Charter Schools at Scale in Big Cities: Results of a Symposium (Seattle, Washington, January 20, 2006)

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    Harvey, James; Rainey, Lydia

    2006-01-01

    Bringing charters to scale remains a major challenge. To learn more about barriers to the expansion of high-quality public charter schools and how they might be removed, the National Charter School Research Project (NCSRP) at the University of Washington and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools convened a meeting of leaders from…

  1. The U.S. Charter School Landscape: Extant Literature, Gaps in Research, and Implications for the U.S. Educational System

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    Gawlik, Marytza A.

    2016-01-01

    More than 20 years into the implementation of public charter schools, the U.S. experience can inform policymakers and others about how to achieve the best possible results through charter school policies. This paper describes the history and current state of the charter school movement, presents a conceptual model of the charter school system, and…

  2. Charter Schools in Greater Los Angeles: An Evaluative Comparison of Charter Schools vis-a-vis Traditional Public Schools

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    Gutierrez, Matthew H.

    2012-01-01

    In 1992, California became just the second state in the United States to enact significant charter school legislation. Today, over 940 charter schools are operating in California servicing nearly 350,000 students. California leads the nation both in the number as well as the fastest rate of growth of charter schools (Center for Education Reform…

  3. 75 FR 554 - Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska

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    2010-01-05

    ...NMFS issues regulations creating a limited access system for charter vessels in the guided sport fishery for Pacific halibut in waters of International Pacific Halibut Commission Regulatory Areas 2C (Southeast Alaska) and 3A (Central Gulf of Alaska). This limited access system limits the number of charter vessels that may participate in the guided sport fishery for halibut in these areas. NMFS will issue a charter halibut permit to a licensed charter fishing business owner based on his or her past participation in the charter halibut fishery and to a Community Quota Entity representing specific rural communities. All charter halibut permit holders are subject to limits on the number of permits they may hold and on the number of charter vessel anglers who may catch and retain halibut on permitted charter vessels. This action is necessary to achieve the approved halibut fishery management goals of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. The intended effect is to curtail growth of fishing capacity in the guided sport fishery for halibut.

  4. Overcoming the unhealthy pursuit of thinness: reaction to the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image.

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    Gauvin, Lise; Steiger, Howard

    2012-08-01

    We examined the population reach, acceptability, and perceived potential of an initiative that developed a promotional tool for a healthy body image, the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image. The Charter, developed through consensus building by a multisectoral, government-led task force, outlined actions to be undertaken by organizations or citizens to reduce media pressures favoring thinness. Six months after the Charter's launch, we surveyed 1003 Québec residents aged 18 years or older about their knowledge of the Charter, their willingness to adhere to it, and their perceptions of its potential. After minimal prompting, more than 35% of respondents recognized the Charter. About 33.7% were very favorable toward personally adhering to the Charter and 32.7% perceived the Charter as having high potential to sensitize people to negative consequences of disordered eating. Women showed greater likelihood and people with lesser education showed lower likelihood of spontaneous recognition. An initiative involving the creation of a body image Charter reaches a substantial portion of adults and is viewed as acceptable and potentially influential.

  5. Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools.

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    Cobb, Casey D.; Glass, Gene V.

    1999-01-01

    Addressed whether Arizona charter schools were more ethnically segregated than traditional public schools by studying 55 urban and 57 rural charter schools. Nearly half showed evidence of substantial ethnic segregation, and charter schools were higher in white enrollment than other public schools. (SLD)

  6. District of Columbia Charter Schools: Criteria for Awarding School Buildings to Charter Schools Needs Additional Transparency. Report to Congressional Committees. GAO-11-263

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    Scott, George A.

    2011-01-01

    Almost 40 percent of all public school students in the District of Columbia (D.C. or District) were enrolled in charter schools in the 2010-11 school year. The D.C. School Reform Act established the Public Charter School Board (PCSB) for the purpose of authorizing and overseeing charter schools. Congress required GAO (US Government Accountability…

  7. The Earth Charter Goes Interactive and Live with e-GLO: Using New Media to Train Youth Leaders in Sustainability on Both Sides of the Digital Divide

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    Sheehan, Mike; Laitinen, Jaana

    2010-01-01

    For ten years now the Earth Charter has been inspiring global citizens to engage in conversations and actions that benefit everybody. This article describes e-GLO, the Earth Charter Global Learning Opportunity, the Earth Charter International's semester-long, online leadership course inspired by the Earth Charter. It is developed and implemented…

  8. The Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations

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    Mason, Diana J.; McDonald, Walter J.; Okun, Sally; Gaines, Martha E.; Fleming, David A.; Rosof, Bernie M.; Gullen, David; Andresen, May-Lynn

    2017-01-01

    In 2002, the Physician Charter on Medical Professionalism was published to provide physicians with guidance for decision making in a rapidly changing environment. Feedback from physicians indicated that they were unable to fully live up to the principles in the 2002 charter partly because of their employing or affiliated health care organizations. A multistakeholder group has developed a Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations, which may provide more guidance than charters for individual disciplines, given the current structure of health care delivery systems. This article contains the Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations, as well as the process and rationale for its development. For hospitals and hospital systems to effectively care for patients, maintain a healthy workforce, and improve the health of populations, they must attend to the four domains addressed by the Charter: patient partnerships, organizational culture, community partnerships, and operations and business practices. Impacting the social determinants of health will require collaboration among health care organizations, government, and communities. Transitioning to the model hospital described by the Charter will challenge historical roles and assumptions of both its leadership and staff. While the Charter is aspirational, it also outlines specific institutional behaviors that will benefit both patients and workers. Lastly, this article considers obstacles to implementing the Charter and explores avenues to facilitate its dissemination. PMID:28079726

  9. The Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations.

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    Egener, Barry E; Mason, Diana J; McDonald, Walter J; Okun, Sally; Gaines, Martha E; Fleming, David A; Rosof, Bernie M; Gullen, David; Andresen, May-Lynn

    2017-08-01

    In 2002, the Physician Charter on Medical Professionalism was published to provide physicians with guidance for decision making in a rapidly changing environment. Feedback from physicians indicated that they were unable to fully live up to the principles in the 2002 charter partly because of their employing or affiliated health care organizations. A multistakeholder group has developed a Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations, which may provide more guidance than charters for individual disciplines, given the current structure of health care delivery systems.This article contains the Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations, as well as the process and rationale for its development. For hospitals and hospital systems to effectively care for patients, maintain a healthy workforce, and improve the health of populations, they must attend to the four domains addressed by the Charter: patient partnerships, organizational culture, community partnerships, and operations and business practices. Impacting the social determinants of health will require collaboration among health care organizations, government, and communities.Transitioning to the model hospital described by the Charter will challenge historical roles and assumptions of both its leadership and staff. While the Charter is aspirational, it also outlines specific institutional behaviors that will benefit both patients and workers. Lastly, this article considers obstacles to implementing the Charter and explores avenues to facilitate its dissemination.

  10. User involvement in the construction of a mental health charter: an exercise in communicative rationality?

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    Hodge, Suzanne M

    2009-09-01

    This paper uses Jürgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action as a lens through which to examine the development of a local mental health charter. To assess whether the Charter represents the product of a communicatively rational process. RESEARCH DESIGN AND SETTING: The paper is based on an analysis of the text of the Charter, and on documentation relating to its development, including notes of discussion groups used to identify its themes. An analysis of the notes of the discussion groups against the text of the Charter shows that the Charter's themes are based broadly on the views generated in the discussion groups. However, they also draw on norms derived from wider discourses not reflected in the discussion groups, and exclude other specific local issues. The strength of feeling expressed in the discussion groups is also toned down in the language of the Charter. The development of the Charter was based on a participatory process that can be said to have contained elements of both communicative and strategic rationality. The strategic rationality involved in translating service users' views into language that would be acceptable to those working in the system can be seen as necessary for the Charter to succeed in bringing about change. In drawing also on communicatively generated norms from the wider public sphere the Charter can be seen as reflecting a form of generalized communicative rationality. The Charter represents a 'sluice' by which communicative rationality is drawn into the mental health system.

  11. 49 CFR 604.25 - Purpose.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE Complaints § 604.25 Purpose. This subpart describes the requirements for filing a complaint challenging the registration of a private charter operator or qualified human service organization on the FTA charter registration Web site and filing a complaint regarding the provision of charter...

  12. 49 CFR 604.4 - Charter service agreement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... 49 Transportation 7 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Charter service agreement. 604.4 Section 604.4 Transportation Other Regulations Relating to Transportation (Continued) FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE General provisions. § 604.4 Charter service agreement. (a) A...

  13. 75 FR 2858 - Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee Charter

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    2010-01-19

    ... DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary Department of Defense Historical Advisory Committee Charter AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). ACTION: Federal advisory committee charter. SUMMARY: Under... Defense gives notice that it intends to renew the charter for the Department of Defense Historical...

  14. The Charter School Experience: Autonomy in Practice

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    McDonald, Tonya Senne

    2013-01-01

    While traditional public school and charter school systems continue to undergo dramatic reforms in response to the educational crisis, charter schools are praised as possessing the distinguishing characteristic of maintaining autonomy in exchange for increased accountability (Buckley & Schneider, 2009). The expectations for charter schools are…

  15. 12 CFR 611.1121 - Charter amendment procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Charter amendment procedures. 611.1121 Section 611.1121 Banks and Banking FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION FARM CREDIT SYSTEM ORGANIZATION Mergers, Consolidations, and Charter Amendments of Associations § 611.1121 Charter amendment procedures. This section...

  16. 76 FR 34890 - Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska

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    2011-06-15

    .... 110601314-1313-01] RIN 0648-BA99 Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels... to vessels operating in the guided sport (charter) fishery for halibut in International Pacific... charter vessels in the [[Page 34891

  17. 41 CFR 105-54.203-2 - Active charters file.

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    2012-01-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Active charters file... Regulations System (Continued) GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION Regional Offices-General Services... charters file. The GSA Committee Management Officer retains each original signed charter in a file of...

  18. 12 CFR 239.21 - Charters.

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    2012-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Charters. 239.21 Section 239.21 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Subsidiary Holding Companies § 239.21 Charters. (a) Charters...

  19. 12 CFR 239.21 - Charters.

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    2014-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Charters. 239.21 Section 239.21 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Subsidiary Holding Companies § 239.21 Charters. (a) Charters...

  20. 12 CFR 239.21 - Charters.

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    2013-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Charters. 239.21 Section 239.21 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Subsidiary Holding Companies § 239.21 Charters. (a) Charters...

  1. 76 FR 17842 - Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program

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    2011-03-31

    ... DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program AGENCY: Office of... for Charter School Facilities program (March 11 NIA). This notice makes two corrections to the March...-mail: [email protected] ; or by mail: (Attention: Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities...

  2. 49 CFR 604.13 - Registration of private charter operators.

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    2010-10-01

    ... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE Procedures for Registration and Notification § 604..., if available, state motor carrier identifying number; (3) The geographic service areas of public... intends to provide charter service; (4) The number of buses or vans the private charter operator owns; (5...

  3. Charter Schools and Market Segmentation

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    Batie, Michael

    2009-01-01

    This dissertation was undertaken to examine the effect(s) of charter school marketing on the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) education landscape with respect to the stratification of charter schools. Information from four sources: school websites, a survey of charter school parents, existing online statistics and data, and various…

  4. Charter Authorizers Face Challenges

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    Gustafson, Joey

    2013-01-01

    Since the first charter school opened 20 years ago in Minnesota, charters have been a focus of school reform advocates and the subject of substantial research. Yet the regulators of the charter industry (called "authorizers" or "sponsors") remain a mystery to many. In fact, many authorizers work in isolation, developing their…

  5. The Relative Efficiency of Charter Schools: A Cost Frontier Approach

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    Gronberg, Timothy J.; Jansen, Dennis W.; Taylor, Lori L.

    2012-01-01

    Charters represent an expansion of public school choice, offering free, publicly funded educational alternatives to traditional public schools. One relatively unexplored research question concerning charter schools asks whether charter schools are more efficient suppliers of educational services than are traditional public schools. The potential…

  6. Predictors of Reading and Math Academic Success in Pennsylvania Charter Schools

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    Yetsko, April Christine

    2010-01-01

    The charter school movement, established to implement innovative educational methods that improve student outcomes (Nathan, 1996), necessitates further research on successful charter schools. Using a multivariate prediction design, this quantitative study sought to address the relationship between charter school success and demographic and…

  7. 12 CFR 239.13 - Charters.

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    2013-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Charters. 239.13 Section 239.13 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Mutual Holding Companies § 239.13 Charters. (a) Charters. The...

  8. 12 CFR 239.13 - Charters.

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    2014-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Charters. 239.13 Section 239.13 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Mutual Holding Companies § 239.13 Charters. (a) Charters. The...

  9. 12 CFR 239.13 - Charters.

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    2012-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Charters. 239.13 Section 239.13 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Mutual Holding Companies § 239.13 Charters. (a) Charters. The...

  10. 14 CFR 294.32 - Security arrangements for operating Public Charters.

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    2010-01-01

    ... (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS General Rules for Registrants § 294.32 Security arrangements for operating Public Charters. When a Canadian charter air taxi... taxi operator shall meet the bonding or escrow requirements applicable to foreign air carriers as set...

  11. 14 CFR 294.32 - Security arrangements for operating Public Charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS General Rules for Registrants § 294.32 Security arrangements for operating Public Charters. When a Canadian charter air taxi... taxi operator shall meet the bonding or escrow requirements applicable to foreign air carriers as set...

  12. International Charter Space and Major Disasters: Evaluation after Two Years

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Chevrel, M.; Briggs, S.; Parashar, S.; Venkatachary, K. V.; Wood, H.

    The purpose of the Charter is to provide assistance in situations of emergencies caused by natural or technological disasters, through the combination of the space and associated ground resources of the Charter participants. The Charter was signed on June 20, 2000 by CNES and ESA, followed by the Canadian Space Agency in October 2000. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) joined the Charter in September 2001. Under the terms of the Charter immediate, free access to data provided through partners is available to authorised civil protection agencies. All Partner agencies undertake to co- operate on a voluntary basis with no exchange of funds between them. A key objective of the Charter is to establish a long-term working relationship between the civil protection community and space agencies, essential to achieve an efficient use of space technology in disaster management. Since the Charter was formally declared operational on November 1, 2000, it has been activated on average once a month for various kinds of events such as landslide, earthquake, oil spill, flood and volcanic eruption. Each operation was analysed with the relevant end-users in order to improve the efficiency of the service provided to the civil protection community, particularly in terms of response time and of delivered products. After a brief description of the Charter organisation and of its implementation procedures, this paper will focus on the evaluation of the contribution of the Charter to crisis management two years after its inception, based on an analysis of the Charter activation cases.

  13. Quality charters or quality members? A control theory perspective on team charters and team performance.

    PubMed

    Courtright, Stephen H; McCormick, Brian W; Mistry, Sal; Wang, Jiexin

    2017-10-01

    Though prevalent in practice, team charters have only recently received scholarly attention. However, most of this work has been relatively devoid of theory, and consequently, key questions about why and under what conditions team charter quality affects team performance remain unanswered. To address these gaps, we draw on macro organizational control theory to propose that team charter quality serves as a team-level "behavior" control mechanism that builds task cohesion through a structured exercise. We then juxtapose team charter quality with an "input" team control mechanism that influences the emergence of task cohesion more organically: team conscientiousness. Given their redundant effects on task cohesion, we propose that the effects of team charter quality and team conscientiousness on team performance (through task cohesion) are substitutive such that team charter quality primarily impacts team performance for teams that are low (vs. high) on conscientiousness. We test and find support for our hypotheses in a sample of 239 undergraduate self-managing project teams. Our study contributes to the groups and teams literature in the following ways: first, relative to previous studies, we take a more theory-driven approach toward understanding team charters, and in doing so, uncover when and why team charter quality impacts team performance; second, we integrate two normally disparate perspectives on team effectiveness (team development and team selection) to offer a broader perspective on how teams are "built"; and third, we introduce team charter quality as a performance-enhancing mechanism for teams lower on conscientiousness. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).

  14. Accountability for All: 2016. The Broken Promise of Michigan's Charter Sector

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Joy, Sunil; Arellano, Amber

    2016-01-01

    In Michigan, schools and educators are held accountable for performance more than ever before. Charter school authorizers--the entities responsible for opening and overseeing new and existing charter schools--face almost no accountability for their performance. In Michigan's current charter landscape, the enormous responsibility of authorizing has…

  15. 12 CFR 611.1010 - Bank charter amendment procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Bank charter amendment procedures. 611.1010 Section 611.1010 Banks and Banking FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION FARM CREDIT SYSTEM ORGANIZATION Bank Mergers, Consolidations and Charter Amendments § 611.1010 Bank charter amendment procedures. (a) A bank may recommend a...

  16. Authorizing Charters: Helping Mom-and-Pops in Ohio

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ryan, Terry; Lafferty, Michael B.; Finn, Chester E., Jr.

    2010-01-01

    The Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's long and deep immersion in Ohio education policy, particularly in the charter-school realm, includes a half decade of direct experience as "authorizer" of several charters. Initially, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) was chief authorizer of charter schools in the Buckeye State. After the state…

  17. 49 CFR 604.26 - Complaints and decisions regarding removal of private charter operators or qualified human...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... human service organization should not be listed on the FTA charter registration Web site; (3) Files... private charter operators or qualified human service organizations from registration list. 604.26 Section... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE Complaints § 604.26 Complaints and decisions...

  18. Successfully Authorizing Blended Charter Schools. Authorizing Matters. Issue Brief. Cyber Series

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ableidinger, Joe; Hassel, Bryan C.

    2012-01-01

    This issue brief is part of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers' (NACSA's) "Cyber Series," which addresses issues in policy and practice that relate to authorizing online and blended charter schools. This brief aims to improve authorizer understanding and oversight of blended charter schools, which combine digital…

  19. Charter Schools: Our Challenge, Our Opportunity. Spotlight--Montessori Diversity: Charter Schools.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kripalani, Lakshmi

    2002-01-01

    Asserts that charter schools provide unique and rich opportunities for Montessori educators to influence public education. Notes obstacles to establishing Montessori charter schools related to loss of funding for the local school district, the difficulty of Montessori teachers obtaining state certification, testing requirements to show student…

  20. 7 CFR 25.502 - Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Nominations by State-chartered economic development... AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES Special Rules § 25.502 Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations. Any rural area nominated by an economic development corporation chartered by a State and...

  1. 76 FR 68759 - GSA Approves Renewal of North American Numbering Council Charter Through September 23, 2013

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-11-07

    ... American Numbering Council Charter Through September 23, 2013 AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission... announcing GSA's approval of the renewal of the North American Numbering Council charter through September 23... American Numbering Council charter. DATES: Renewed through September 23, 2013. ADDRESSES: Competition...

  2. 22 CFR 8.8 - Chartering of committees.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... information set forth in the charter of the parent committee. (3) Informal subgroups may not require a charter... the Library of Congress. (b) Contents. Each committee charter shall contain: The official name and... maintained; the estimated annual operating costs in dollars and man-years, and the source and authority for...

  3. 14 CFR 212.6 - Operation of gambling junket charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Operation of gambling junket charters. 212.6 Section 212.6 Aeronautics and Space OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Operation of gambling junket charters. A gambling junket charter operated by a certificated or foreign air...

  4. 14 CFR 212.6 - Operation of gambling junket charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Operation of gambling junket charters. 212.6 Section 212.6 Aeronautics and Space OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Operation of gambling junket charters. A gambling junket charter operated by a certificated or foreign air...

  5. 14 CFR 212.6 - Operation of gambling junket charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Operation of gambling junket charters. 212.6 Section 212.6 Aeronautics and Space OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Operation of gambling junket charters. A gambling junket charter operated by a certificated or foreign air...

  6. Charter Schools: Taking a Closer Look

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bulkley, Katrina E.

    2011-01-01

    Since the adoption of the first charter school law in Minnesota in 1991, charter schools have received considerable attention from policy makers, parents, educators, and the media. In the United States, at the national level, three consecutive presidents--Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama--have actively supported charters. Given the…

  7. 7 CFR 25.502 - Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Nominations by State-chartered economic development... AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES Special Rules § 25.502 Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations. Any rural area nominated by an economic development corporation chartered by a State and...

  8. 7 CFR 25.502 - Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Nominations by State-chartered economic development... AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES Special Rules § 25.502 Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations. Any rural area nominated by an economic development corporation chartered by a State and...

  9. 7 CFR 25.502 - Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Nominations by State-chartered economic development... AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES Special Rules § 25.502 Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations. Any rural area nominated by an economic development corporation chartered by a State and...

  10. 7 CFR 25.502 - Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 7 Agriculture 1 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Nominations by State-chartered economic development... AND ENTERPRISE COMMUNITIES Special Rules § 25.502 Nominations by State-chartered economic development corporations. Any rural area nominated by an economic development corporation chartered by a State and...

  11. Are Charter School Unions Worth the Bargain?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Price, Mitch

    2011-01-01

    About 12 percent of all charter schools have bargaining agreements. Why do charter schools unionize? What is in these charter school contracts? Can they be considered innovative or models for union reform? And how do they compare to traditional district/union teacher contracts? Center on Reinventing Public Education legal analyst Mitch Price…

  12. Charter Management Organizations: Innovations, Opportunities, and Challenges. Research Brief

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2010

    2010-01-01

    Over the past two decades, charter management organizations (CMOs) have become a significant force in the public K-12 charter school landscape. CMOs, nonprofit entities that directly manage public charter schools, are meant to meld the benefits of school districts--including economies of scale, collaboration among similar schools, and support…

  13. A Smarter Direction for Charter Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Kahlenberg, Richard D.; Potter, Halley

    2017-01-01

    The authors, Kahlenberg and Potter, investigate the changed role of charter schools and how state boards can assist in the return to the original vision. When jumpstarted in the late 1980s, the charter movement vision was for teachers to experiment with innovative approaches to educating students. The charters would be educational laboratories…

  14. The Charter School Roadmap.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO.

    To provide policymakers, practitioners, and other education leaders with the knowledge needed to consider the issues surrounding charter schools, a survey of these schools is offered. The text opens with an overview of charter-school basics, including the types of schools that are permissible and the legal status of charter schools. It analyzes…

  15. 41 CFR 102-3.80 - How are minor charter amendments accomplished?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false How are minor charter... are minor charter amendments accomplished? (a) Responsibility and limitation. The agency head is responsible for amending the charter of an advisory committee. Amendments may be either minor or major. The...

  16. 41 CFR 102-3.80 - How are minor charter amendments accomplished?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false How are minor charter... are minor charter amendments accomplished? (a) Responsibility and limitation. The agency head is responsible for amending the charter of an advisory committee. Amendments may be either minor or major. The...

  17. Arizona Charter Schools: Resegregating Public Education?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cobb, Casey D.; Glass, Gene V.

    An Arizona study examined whether charter schools contribute to the racial/ethnic segregation of students in publicly funded schools. Data included Arizona school enrollment data for 1996, 1998, and 2002; school addresses for 2002 charter schools; and other relevant information specific to charter schools, obtained from the Arizona Department of…

  18. 10 CFR 7.6 - Amendment to advisory committee charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Amendment to advisory committee charters. 7.6 Section 7.6 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.6 Amendment to advisory committee charters. (a) Final authority for amending the charter of an NRC advisory committee established or utilized by...

  19. 10 CFR 7.6 - Amendment to advisory committee charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Amendment to advisory committee charters. 7.6 Section 7.6 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.6 Amendment to advisory committee charters. (a) Final authority for amending the charter of an NRC advisory committee established or utilized by...

  20. 10 CFR 7.6 - Amendment to advisory committee charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Amendment to advisory committee charters. 7.6 Section 7.6 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.6 Amendment to advisory committee charters. (a) Final authority for amending the charter of an NRC advisory committee established or utilized by...

  1. 12 CFR 614.4080 - Loans and chartered territory-banks for cooperatives.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Loans and chartered territory-banks for cooperatives. 614.4080 Section 614.4080 Banks and Banking FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION FARM CREDIT SYSTEM LOAN POLICIES AND OPERATIONS Chartered Territories § 614.4080 Loans and chartered territory—banks for...

  2. Maryland Public Charter Schools Model Policy and Resource Guide

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Maryland State Department of Education, 2005

    2005-01-01

    This document is designed to guide local boards of education and school systems in Maryland in assisting individuals and organizations interested in establishing public charter schools. This guide is organized into the following parts: (1) Maryland Public Charter Schools Act; (2) Organizing to Assist Public Charter School Development; (3)…

  3. Charter School Funding: Inequity's Next Frontier

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2005

    2005-01-01

    Of all the controversies swirling around the nation's charter schools, none is more hotly contested than the debate over funding. Charter opponents charge that these autonomous public schools are draining scarce resources from public school districts. Proponents, by contrast, complain that charter schools do not get their fair share of public…

  4. 10 CFR 7.6 - Amendment to advisory committee charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Amendment to advisory committee charters. 7.6 Section 7.6 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.6 Amendment to advisory committee charters. (a) Final authority for amending the charter of an NRC advisory committee established or utilized by...

  5. 10 CFR 7.6 - Amendment to advisory committee charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Amendment to advisory committee charters. 7.6 Section 7.6 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.6 Amendment to advisory committee charters. (a) Final authority for amending the charter of an NRC advisory committee established or utilized by...

  6. 14 CFR 294.3 - General requirements for Canadian charter air taxi operators.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... air taxi operators. 294.3 Section 294.3 Aeronautics and Space OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS General § 294.3 General requirements for Canadian charter air taxi operators. A Canadian charter air taxi operator shall...

  7. 14 CFR 294.30 - Scope of service and equipment authorized.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS General Rules for... air service, and the exemption provided by this part to Canadian charter air taxi operators that... charter air taxi operator shall not use large aircraft for charter air service until it has been granted a...

  8. 14 CFR 294.31 - Use of business name.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS General Rules for Registrants § 294.31 Use of business name. (a) A Canadian charter air taxi operator, in holding out charter air service to the public and... this part. The Department may require a Canadian charter air taxi operator to change such names where...

  9. 14 CFR 294.3 - General requirements for Canadian charter air taxi operators.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... air taxi operators. 294.3 Section 294.3 Aeronautics and Space OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS General § 294.3 General requirements for Canadian charter air taxi operators. A Canadian charter air taxi operator shall...

  10. Zero Reject and School Choice: Students with Disabilities in Texas' Charter Schools.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Estes, Mary Bailey

    2003-01-01

    Reviews literature on students with disabilities in charter schools. Analyzes Texas' Public Education Information Management System data to compare traditional and charter school attendance of students with disabilities. Finds 3.7 percent fewer students with disabilities attended charter schools during 1999-2000 school year than traditional…

  11. 34 CFR 300.7 - Charter school.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 34 Education 2 2011-07-01 2010-07-01 true Charter school. 300.7 Section 300.7 Education Regulations of the Offices of the Department of Education (Continued) OFFICE OF SPECIAL EDUCATION AND... DISABILITIES General Definitions Used in This Part § 300.7 Charter school. Charter school has the meaning given...

  12. Evidence Based Education Request Desk. EBE #774

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Regional Educational Laboratory Southeast, 2011

    2011-01-01

    It is difficult to make a clear impact statement about charter schools. Much of the available research is equivocal, and many important questions related to the impact of charter schools remain unanswered. Researchers have primarily examined four general topics with respect to the impact of charter schools; (1) Do charter schools raise student…

  13. The $500 Million Question: Can Charter Management Organizations Deliver Quality Education at Scale?

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hall, Kevin; Lake, Robin

    2011-01-01

    Charter school management organizations (CMOs) have emerged as a popular means for bringing charter schooling to scale. Advocates credit CMOs with delivering a coherent model of charter schooling to a growing number of children across numerous sites. Skeptics have wondered whether CMOs constitute an effective management approach, whether they…

  14. Early Returns on District of Columbia Charter Schools. Capital Campaign

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Mead, Sara

    2005-01-01

    In this report for the Progressive Policy Institute's 21st Century Schools Project, the author examines charter schooling in Washington, D.C., including the region's unique history of charter schooling and the challenges these schools face. She is optimistic about the future of the District's charter school movement, but argues that District and…

  15. Minnesota Department of Education Special Education Primer for Charter Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Minnesota Department of Education, 2009

    2009-01-01

    The purpose of this document is to provide information and resources on special education for charter school sponsors and charter school directors. This document is the result of collaborative input from individuals who work in and with charter schools in Minnesota. It also represents the collaborative efforts of the following divisions of the…

  16. Equity Overlooked: Charter Schools and Civil Rights Policy

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Frankenberg, Erica; Siegel-Hawley, Genevieve

    2009-01-01

    The Civil Rights Project (CRP) is in the midst of an analysis of rapidly growing charter school enrollment, which the authors anticipate releasing next month. Similar to trends described in their 2003 report and in other research on racial isolation in charter schools, they find higher levels of segregation for black students in charter schools…

  17. Charter Schools, Civil Rights and School Discipline: A Comprehensive Review

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Losen, Daniel J.; Keith, Michael A., II; Hodson, Cheri L.; Martinez, Tia E.

    2016-01-01

    This report, along with the companion spreadsheet, provides the first comprehensive description ever compiled of charter school discipline. In 2011-12, every one of the nation's 95,000 public schools was required to report its school discipline data, including charter schools. This analysis, which includes more than 5,250 charter schools, focuses…

  18. On the Charter Question: Black Marxism and Black Nationalism

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Stern, Mark; Hussain, Khuram

    2015-01-01

    This article brings two black intellectual traditions to bear on the question of charter schools: black Marxism and black nationalism. The authors examine the theoretical and rhetorical devices used to talk about charters schools by focusing on how notions of "black liberation" are deployed by the charter movement, and to what end. The…

  19. Charter Schools...What Are They Up To? A 1995 Survey.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO.

    This booklet presents findings of a study that gathered information about charter schools. Representatives of more than 170 public charter schools were surveyed by mail, telephone or at national and regional meetings. Approximately 120 surveys were returned by representatives of 110 charter public schools in seven states--California, Colorado,…

  20. The Challenges for Charter Schools: Replicating Success. Education Outlook. No. 4

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hess, Frederick M.; Higgins, Monica

    2009-01-01

    Charter schooling continues to grow apace. The nation's four-thousand-plus charter schools now enroll more than a million students and are approaching (or have exceeded) traditional district enrollment in communities like Dayton, Ohio; New Orleans, Louisiana; and Washington, D.C. Many of the most successful charter school providers are embarking…

  1. 34 CFR 226.23 - May charter schools use grant funds for administrative costs?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false May charter schools use grant funds for administrative... OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM What Conditions Must Be Met by a Grantee? § 226.23 May charter schools use grant funds for...

  2. New Hampshire Charter Schools Parent Study 2011

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Julius, Tom

    2011-01-01

    This study was conducted in Spring 2011 with the purpose of better understanding the nature and experiences of New Hampshire charter school parents. Nine out of ten operating NH charter schools participated. Parents were invited to participate in an on-line survey and on-site focus group interviews. Results provide a profile of NH charter school…

  3. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Michigan

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013

    2013-01-01

    In spring of 2012, the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the adequacy of charter school facilities and the average amount of operating funds spent on facilities. Collectively, the…

  4. Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools: A Summary. Research Brief

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Booker, Kevin; Gill, Brian; Zimmer, Ron; Sass, Tim R.

    2008-01-01

    Chicago's "multi-grade" charter high schools (those that include middle school grades) appear to be increasing students' rates of graduation and college entry. The overall performance of Chicago's charter schools in raising student test scores is approximately on par with that of traditional public schools in Chicago. Charter schools…

  5. School Food Environment of Charter Schools in St. Louis

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Linsenmeyer, Whitney; Kelly, Patrick; Jenkins, Steve; Mattfeldt-Berman, Mildred

    2013-01-01

    Purpose/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the school food environment of charter schools in Saint Louis, Missouri. The objectives were to: (1) describe the participation of charter schools in the National School Lunch Program and (2) describe the prevalence of competitive foods in charter schools. Methods: School administrators…

  6. Religious Charter Schools: Gaining Ground yet Still Undefined

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Weinberg, Lawrence D.

    2009-01-01

    This article examines charter schools from the perspective of religious institutions and parents that may want to open such schools. Religion-based charter schools also pose unique policy and legal questions because charter schools are a singular reform method. It examines the relevant, recent and historical, legal cases, and relevant examples of…

  7. Online High School Achievement versus Traditional High School Achievement

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Blohm, Katherine E.

    2017-01-01

    The following study examined the question of student achievement in online charter schools and how the achievement scores of students at online charter schools compare to achievement scores of students at traditional schools. Arizona has seen explosive growth in charter schools and online charter schools. A study comparing how these two types of…

  8. Charter Schools and Higher Education Authorizers. A Research for Action Policy Note

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Research For Action, 2014

    2014-01-01

    Charter school authorization, accountability, and funding will be key features of education policy debates in Pennsylvania over the next several months. One proposed policy, Senate Bill 1085, would amend significant aspects of the state's charter school law, including the system for charter school approval, specific criteria for evaluating…

  9. Charter Schools: Limited Access to Facility Financing. Report to Congressional Requesters.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shaul, Marnie S.

    This report determines the degree to which charter schools have access to traditional public school facility financing, and whether alternative sources of facility financing are available to charter schools. Further discussed are potential options generally available to the federal government if it were to assume a larger role in charter school…

  10. Medicaid... in Charter Schools? Special Report. Primers on Special Education in Charter Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Loessner, Laura

    2008-01-01

    This report discusses Medicaid reimbursements available for services delivered to students with disabilities in schools. It describes how charter schools can go about claiming such funds and highlights the way charter schools in Washington, DC have successfully accessed Medicaid payments through the Special Education Cooperative. The legal status…

  11. Chartering New Waters: The Indianapolis Mayoral Transition and the Charter School Community

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Prusinski, Ellen L.; Ruddy, Anne-Maree; Plucker, Jonathan A.; Cierniak, Katherine A.

    2015-01-01

    As the first mayor in the United States to possess independent charter school authorizing authority, Mayor Bart Peterson oversaw the establishment and expansion of Indianapolis's ambitious charter school initiative. In 2007, Democratic Mayor Peterson's oversight of the initiative came to an end when he was unexpectedly defeated by Republican…

  12. Cyber Charter Schools: Evolution, Issues, and Opportunities in Funding and Localized Oversight

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ellis, Kathleen

    2008-01-01

    Cyber schools, also known as virtual schools, are noteworthy charter school developments that provide viable options for education. Charter schools in general and cyber charter schools in particular are not "revenue neutral" to local school districts. Nationwide, hundreds of millions of dollars allocated for education are being routed…

  13. Heterogeneous Effects of Charter Schools: Unpacking Family Selection and Achievement Growth in Los Angeles

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shin, Hyo Jeong; Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke

    2017-01-01

    Disparate findings on whether students attending charter schools outperform peers in traditional public schools (TPS) may stem from mixing differing types of charters or inadequately accounting for pupil background. To gauge prior family selection and heterogeneous effects, we distinguish between conversion and start-up charter schools, along with…

  14. An Institutional Theory Analysis of Charter Schools: Addressing Institutional Challenges to Scale

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Huerta, Luis A.; Zuckerman, Andrew

    2009-01-01

    This article presents a conceptual framework derived from institutional theory in sociology that offers two competing policy contexts in which charter schools operate--a bureaucratic frame versus a decentralized frame. An analysis of evolving charter school types based on three underlying theories of action is considered. As charter school leaders…

  15. Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Carpenter, Dick M., II

    2005-01-01

    This report contains the typology of charter schools that were sought, based on Carpenter's careful sorting of 1,182 charter schools, representing 87 percent of all those operating in 2001-2002 in the five states (Arizona, California, Florida, Michigan, and Texas) that then accounted for the lion's share of U.S. charter schools. Carpenter sorted…

  16. 34 CFR 225.3 - What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... Charter School Facilities Program? 225.3 Section 225.3 Education Regulations of the Offices of the... ENHANCEMENT FOR CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES PROGRAM General § 225.3 What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program? The following regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement...

  17. 34 CFR 226.3 - What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities Incentive program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false What regulations apply to the State Charter School... Education OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM General § 226.3 What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities...

  18. 34 CFR 225.3 - What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... Charter School Facilities Program? 225.3 Section 225.3 Education Regulations of the Offices of the... ENHANCEMENT FOR CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES PROGRAM General § 225.3 What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program? The following regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement...

  19. 34 CFR 226.3 - What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities Incentive program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false What regulations apply to the State Charter School... Education OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM General § 226.3 What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities...

  20. 34 CFR 225.3 - What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... Charter School Facilities Program? 225.3 Section 225.3 Education Regulations of the Offices of the... ENHANCEMENT FOR CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES PROGRAM General § 225.3 What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program? The following regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement...

  1. 34 CFR 225.3 - What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... Charter School Facilities Program? 225.3 Section 225.3 Education Regulations of the Offices of the... ENHANCEMENT FOR CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES PROGRAM General § 225.3 What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program? The following regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement...

  2. 34 CFR 226.3 - What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities Incentive program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false What regulations apply to the State Charter School... Education OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM General § 226.3 What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities...

  3. 34 CFR 226.3 - What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities Incentive program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false What regulations apply to the State Charter School... Education OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM General § 226.3 What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities...

  4. 34 CFR 225.3 - What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... Charter School Facilities Program? 225.3 Section 225.3 Education Regulations of the Offices of the... ENHANCEMENT FOR CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES PROGRAM General § 225.3 What regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement for Charter School Facilities Program? The following regulations apply to the Credit Enhancement...

  5. 34 CFR 226.3 - What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities Incentive program?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 34 Education 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false What regulations apply to the State Charter School... Education OFFICE OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE CHARTER SCHOOL FACILITIES INCENTIVE PROGRAM General § 226.3 What regulations apply to the State Charter School Facilities...

  6. Follow the Money: An Initial Review of Elementary Charter School Spending in Michigan.

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    Prince, Hank

    1999-01-01

    Examined whether Michigan's elementary charter schools' expenditures differ from those of comparable-enrollment local districts. During 1995-96, charters spent an average of 57 percent of revenues on instruction and about 43 percent on support services, compared to 65 and 35 percent for comparable districts. Charters' administrative expenditures…

  7. Free to Lead: Autonomy in Highly Successful Charter Schools. Issue Brief

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    Ableidinger, Joe; Hassel, Bryan C.

    2010-01-01

    Autonomy is a key component of the charter school concept. By allowing charter schools to have autonomy over decisions concerning finance, personnel, scheduling, curriculum and instruction, states have enabled many of these schools to produce stellar results for their students. This issue brief explores autonomy at five excellent charter schools…

  8. Charter School Movement: History, Politics, Policies, Economics & Effectiveness. Second Edition

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    Grey House Publishing, 2009

    2009-01-01

    From zero in 1991 to 3,800 eighteen years later, charter schools (public schools under contract) today educate well over a million students. This updated, second edition examines the unusual experiment that is charter education and the controversies that surround public choice and charter schools as a means of educational reform. Written by…

  9. Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools

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    Merseth, Katherine K.

    2009-01-01

    "Inside Urban Charter Schools" offers an unprecedentedly intimate glimpse into the world of charter schools by profiling five high-performing urban charter schools serving predominantly low-income, minority youth in Massachusetts. Interviews, focus groups, and classroom observations conducted over the course of two years flesh out rich…

  10. Equity and Charter Schools in Public Education

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    Every, James Bradford

    2012-01-01

    There is a void in current research and literature critically analyzing how charter schools and their leaders provide equal access to all students. The language used in both federal and state legislation (in the 40 states that have passed charter school legislation) providing a legal basis for the establishment of charter schools explicitly…

  11. 76 FR 62374 - Proposed Information Collection; Comment Request; Alaska Recreational Charter Vessel Guide and...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-10-07

    ... charter vessels in the guided halibut sport fishery in International Pacific Halibut Commission Areas 2C... Pacific halibut is allocated between the guided sport (i.e., the charter sector) and the commercial... Fisheries Science Center proposes to conduct a survey of charter vessel owners to collect annual cost and...

  12. Twice Considered: Charter Schools and Student Achievement in Utah

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    Ni, Yongmei; Rorrer, Andrea K.

    2012-01-01

    A relatively small state, Utah presents an interesting case to study charter schools given its friendly policy environment and its significant growth in charter school enrollment. Based on longitudinal student-level data from 2004 to 2009, this paper utilizes two approaches to evaluate the Utah charter school effectiveness: (a) hierarchical linear…

  13. Student Achievement in Ohio Charter Schools: A Comparative and Longitudinal Study

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    Kotler, Ruth M.

    2012-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to investigate fifth-grade student achievement in Ohio public charter schools as compared to student achievement in traditional public schools, and to determine whether the performance of charter schools changed over time. Research questions asked 1) how does student achievement in Ohio's public charters compare to…

  14. Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities: How Far Have We Come?

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    Estes, Mary Bailey

    2009-01-01

    Fifteen years after the first charter school legislation was passed, the number of charter schools opening in the United States each year continues to grow. In 2000, research was conducted to examine the extent and quality of service to students with disabilities in Texas's charter schools. Descriptive statistics and structured interviews were…

  15. Charter School Contracts. Policy Guide

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    Cass, Rebecca

    2009-01-01

    The charter school concept was first introduced in 1991 when the Minnesota Legislature passed the nation's first charter school law. As of this writing in 2009, 40 states and the District of Columbia have charter school legislation. While the specific characteristics and nuances of these laws vary from state to state, almost every state law…

  16. An Analysis of Pennsylvania's Cyber Charter Schools. Issue Brief

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    Jack, James; Sludden, John; Schott, Adam

    2013-01-01

    Pennsylvania's first cyber charter school opened in 1998, enrolling 44 full-time students. From this modest beginning, Pennsylvania's cyber charter sector has grown to 16 schools enrolling 35,000 students from all but one school district in the Commonwealth. Pennsylvania has one of the nation's most extensive cyber charter sectors, and six…

  17. 75 FR 28789 - Office of Innovation and Improvement; Overview Information; Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grants...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-05-24

    ... Schools Program (CSP) Grants for Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools; Notice... purpose of the CSP is to increase national understanding of the charter school model and to expand the number of high-quality charter schools available to students across the Nation by providing financial...

  18. Human Resources Management: Onboarding Program and Trainer's Guide for Charter School Employees

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    Cook, Jeannette

    2016-01-01

    The applied dissertation project focused on the development of a comprehensive onboarding program and Trainer's Guide specifically developed for charter school management employees. Charter school education has grown significantly in the last several decades with over 6,100 charter schools that are currently serving students nationwide. Formal or…

  19. Improve Governance for Charters

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    Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Manno, Bruno V.; Wright, Brandon L.

    2017-01-01

    With 25 years of experience, the charter sector has had enough time to experience a host of unanticipated and unresolved problems related to the complex ways in which charter school governance relates to school leadership. The time has come for the sector to revisit some fundamental decisions about how charter schools and networks are governed,…

  20. Resisting Charters: A Comparative Policy Development Analysis of Washington and Kentucky, 2002-2012

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    Johnston, Joseph B.

    2014-01-01

    Over the past two decades, most states have adopted laws enabling charter schools, as charter advocates successfully presented charters as the solution to core problems in urban public education. Yet some states with large urban centers, notably Washington and Kentucky, resisted this seemingly inexorable trend for years. What explains their…

  1. Charter Schools and Student Achievement in Florida

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    Sass, Tim R.

    2006-01-01

    I utilize longitudinal data covering all public school students in Florida to study the performance of charter schools and their competitive impact on traditional public schools. Controlling for student-level fixed effects, I find achievement initially is lower in charters. However, by their fifth year of operation new charter schools reach a par…

  2. Small Districts in Big Trouble: How Four Arizona School Systems Responded to Charter Competition.

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    Hess, Frederick; Maranto, Robert; Milliman, Scott

    2001-01-01

    Examined the responses to charter school competition of four small Arizona school districts. Overall, districts lost students to charter schools because they did not satisfy significant constituencies. Their responses depended on overall enrollment trends, quality of charter competition, quality of district leadership, and district size. Responses…

  3. 12 CFR 34.24 - Nonfederally chartered commercial banks.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Nonfederally chartered commercial banks. 34.24... LENDING AND APPRAISALS Adjustable-Rate Mortgages § 34.24 Nonfederally chartered commercial banks. Pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 3803(a), a State chartered commercial bank may make ARM loans in accordance with the...

  4. Perceived Advantages and Disadvantages of an Online Charter School

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    Shoaf, Lisa M.

    2007-01-01

    This study examines data from focus group discussions with parents, students, and teachers at an online charter school. Standardized achievement test scores of children at the online charter school are compared with those in a similar school and across the state. Overall, the constituents involved in the online charter school were satisfied with…

  5. Charter School Funding: Inequity in New York City

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    Maloney, Larry D.; Wolf, Patrick J.

    2017-01-01

    New York City was home to 1,575 district and 183 charter schools in Fiscal Year 2014 (FY2014). Seven percent of all public school students in New York City attended charter schools that year. Researchers systematically reviewed funding and spending documents involving the city's district-run and independent charter schools for FY2014. Research…

  6. 34 CFR 300.209 - Treatment of charter schools and their students.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-07-01

    ... 34 Education 2 2011-07-01 2010-07-01 true Treatment of charter schools and their students. 300.209... schools and their students. (a) Rights of children with disabilities. Children with disabilities who attend public charter schools and their parents retain all rights under this part. (b) Charter schools...

  7. Applying the Ottawa Charter to inform health promotion programme design.

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    Fry, Denise; Zask, Avigdor

    2017-10-01

    There is evidence of a correlation between adoption of the Ottawa Charter's framework of five action areas and health promotion programme effectiveness, but the Charter's framework has not been as fully implemented as hoped, nor is generally used by formal programme design models. In response, we aimed to translate the Charter's framework into a method to inform programme design. Our resulting design process uses detailed definitions of the Charter's action areas and evidence of predicted effectiveness to prompt greater consideration and use of the Charter's framework. We piloted the process by applying it to the design of four programmes of the Healthy Children's Initiative in New South Wales, Australia; refined the criteria via consensus; and made consensus decisions on the extent to which programme designs reflected the Charter's framework. The design process has broad potential applicability to health promotion programmes; facilitating greater use of the Ottawa Charter framework, which evidence indicates can increase programme effectiveness. © The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oup.com.

  8. School Segregation, Charter Schools, and Access to Quality Education*

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    Logan, John R.; Burdick-Will, Julia

    2015-01-01

    Race, class, neighborhood, and school quality are all highly inter-related in the American educational system. In the last decade a new factor has come into play, the option of attending a charter school. We offer a comprehensive analysis of the disparities among public schools attended by white, black, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American children in 2010–2011, including all districts in which charter schools existed. We compare schools in terms of poverty concentration, racial composition, and standardized test scores, and we also examine how attending a charter or non-charter school affects these differences. Black and Hispanic (and to a lesser extent Native American and Asian) students attend elementary and high schools with higher rates of poverty than white students. Especially for whites and Asians, attending a charter school means lower exposure to poverty. Children’s own race and the poverty and charter status of their schools affect the test scores and racial isolation of schools that children attend in complex combinations. Most intriguing, attending a charter school means attending a better performing school in high-poverty areas but a lower performing school in low-poverty areas. Yet even in the best case the positive effect of attending a charter school only slightly offsets the disadvantages of black and Hispanic students. PMID:27616813

  9. Becoming Unionized in a Charter School: Teacher Experiences and the Promise of Choice

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    Montaño, Elizabeth

    2015-01-01

    When California legislators passed the California Charter School Act of 1992, it allowed parents the choice of sending their children to public charter schools, places where teachers would have more autonomy and where schools faced exemptions from state education codes and from collective bargaining contracts. Hope Charter School (a pseudonym;…

  10. Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2011

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    Lake, Robin J., Ed.; Gross, Betheny, Ed.

    2012-01-01

    Charter schools are public schools. Historically, however, the relationship between school districts and charters has been nonexistent at best, antagonistic at worst. As the charter sector continues to grow steadily, an analysis of the national landscape explores how that relationship needs to start changing--and where it already has. This year's…

  11. We're on a Mission Here: Institution Building, Education Reform, and the Rise of a Charter Management Organization

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    Zuckerman, Andrew Michael

    2012-01-01

    This study examined the institution-building efforts of a leading charter school management organization, Achievement First. The study used a conceptual framework derived from institutional theory in sociology that offers two competing policy contexts in which charter schools and charter management organizations operate--a bureaucratic versus…

  12. A Guide to Charter Schools: Research and Practical Advice for Educators

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    Kayes, Myron S., Ed.; Maranto, Robert, Ed.

    2006-01-01

    This book is a short edited volume that brings together in one place, the best scholarly articles in charter schooling by national experts and leaders, written in a user-friendly fashion. It is the ideal introduction for those interested in the charter school movement with numerous insights for and by charter operators, administrators, and…

  13. Seeds of Change in the Big Apple: Chartering Schools in New York City

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    Lake, Robin J.

    2004-01-01

    In New York City and state, charter schools are slowly gaining momentum through performance that speaks for itself, and with quick action by authorizers and charter advocates when schools fail. But as the New York charter experience should demonstrate to districts and states nationwide, meeting the urgent need for systemwide improvement is far…

  14. Innovative Education? A Test of Specialist Mimicry or Generalist Assimilation in Trends in Charter School Specialization over Time

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    Renzulli, Linda A.; Barr, Ashley B.; Paino, Maria

    2015-01-01

    By most media accounts, charter schools are innovative schools. But little empirical work interrogates this idea. We examine the growth and decline of specialist charter school mission statements as one indicator of innovation. In line with theories of resource partitioning, we find that specialist charter school missions--those asserting…

  15. An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Arkansas

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2013

    2013-01-01

    This report details the status of charter school facilities in the state of Arkansas. In the Spring of 2013, the Arkansas Public School Resource Center, the Colorado League of Charter Schools, and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools worked to collect evidence that would accurately portray both the degree to which Arkansas open…

  16. K-8 Charter Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap. Innovations in Education

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    US Department of Education, 2007

    2007-01-01

    This guide is part of a series produced by the U.S. Department of Education, and it builds on two previous works: "Successful Charter Schools" (ED493615) and "Charter High Schools Closing the Achievement Gap" (ED494482). It profiles seven K-8 charter schools that are making headway in narrowing gaps in achievement. It examines…

  17. Charter Schools and the Corporate Makeover of Public Education: What's at Stake?

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    Fabricant, Michael; Fine, Michelle

    2012-01-01

    This book will reset the discourse on charter schooling by systematically exploring the gap between the promise and the performance of charter schools. The authors do not defend the public school system, which for decades has failed primarily poor children of color. Instead, they use empirical evidence to determine whether charter schooling offers…

  18. Charter School Authorizing: Are States Making the Grade?

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    Palmer, Louann Bierlein; Gau, Rebecca

    2003-01-01

    When the charter school movement began in the early 1990's, one key set of players received little attention: the public entities that sponsor or authorize these unconventional schools. A charter is properly understood as a contract between two parties, the school operator and the authorizer. For the charter movement to succeed, both must do their…

  19. Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities: Legal and Practice Considerations

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    Dunn, Michelle E.; Katsiyannis, Antonis; Ryan, Joseph B.

    2018-01-01

    As of the 2013-2014 school year, about 2.5 million school-age students attended charter schools nationwide. Because charter schools are publicly funded entities, they are required to adhere to all federal nondiscriminatory laws as well as the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act. This legal brief provides an overview of charter schools,…

  20. Getting Inside the Black Box: Examining How the Operation of Charter Schools Affects Performance

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    Zimmer, Ron; Buddin, Richard

    2007-01-01

    In recent years, a series of articles have examined the performance of charter schools with mixed results. Some of this research has shown that charter school performance varies by charter type or the age of the school (Bifulco & Ladd, 2006; Buddin & Zimmer, 2005; Hanushek, Kain, & Rivkin, 2002; Sass, 2006). However, this research has…

  1. Charter School Accountability in New York: Findings from a Three-Year Study of Charter School Authorizers. Charter School Research Project.

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    Ascher, Carol; Echazarreta, Juan; Jacobowitz, Robin; McBride, Yolanda; Troy, Tammi; Wamba, Nathalis

    New York State currently has three charter school authorizing agencies. Until now, their oversight has focused on performance based, contractual, and regulatory accountability. An emerging literature suggests that authorizers are reluctant to actualize the accountability/autonomy exchange by closing schools for failure to meet performance targets.…

  2. The Influence of Founder Type on Charter School Structures and Operations.

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    Henig, Jeffrey R.; Holyoke, Thomas T.; Brown, Heath; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie

    Much of the literature on charter schools treats them as an undifferentiated mass. A typology of charter schools grounded in the norms, traditions, and perspectives of the founding organization or organizers is presented and tested in this paper. It is suggested that there are two broad categories of charter founders: (1) those who are more…

  3. The Influence of Founder Type on Charter School Structures and Operations

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    Henig, Jeffrey R.; Holyoke, Thomas T.; Brown, Heath; Lacireno-Paquet, Natalie

    2005-01-01

    Much of the literature on charter schools treats them as an undifferentiated mass. Here we present and test a typology of charter schools that is grounded in the norms, traditions, and perspectives of the founding organization or organizers. We suggest that there are two broad categories of charter founders--those who are more mission oriented and…

  4. In the Eye of the Beholder: Charter Schools and Innovation

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    Lake, Robin J.

    2008-01-01

    Many expect that charter schools will produce innovations, but it is unclear what kinds and how much innovation is desirable. This paper summarizes the research evidence on charter school innovation to date and suggests ways to more productively pursue future research and development in the charter sector. The paper addresses three main questions:…

  5. How to Recruit High-Performing Charter Management Organizations to a New Region: Results from the 2015 CMO Survey

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016

    2016-01-01

    Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) are nonprofit entities that manage at least two charter schools. They play an important role in increasing the number of high-quality charter public schools by enabling the replication and expansion of models that work, creating economies of scale, encouraging collaboration, and building support structures…

  6. Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws. Seventh Edition

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    Ziebarth, Todd

    2016-01-01

    This seventh edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" presents the latest activity in charter public school legislation across the country. Some highlights include: (1) significant activity regarding potential enabling legislation in several of the states without charter public school laws, (2)…

  7. California Charter School Closures: Perspectives and Advice from Nine Former Charter School Directors

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    Reiter-Cook, Jennifer

    2010-01-01

    Charter schools have been categorized as "everyone's reform" (Bracey, 2004); they are a type of public school, first established in 1992, that normally has fewer restrictions than most public schools and that serves a student body that, in many circumstances, has consciously opted to attend the school. Charter schools have promised high student…

  8. Choice, Charter Schools, and Students with Disabilities: Special Education Enrollment in Post-Katrina New Orleans Charter Schools

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    Marcell, Elizabeth A.

    2010-01-01

    Charter schools have been a mechanism of school reform for three decades (Finn, Manno, & Vanourek, 2000; Greene et al, 2010) and have received increased attention during the current Obama administration (Loveless, 2010). Studies on the effectiveness of charter schools demonstrate mixed results and that school quality varies dramatically, but…

  9. Dispelling the Myth of "White Flight": An Examination of Minority Enrollment in Charter Schools

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    Rapp, Kelly E.; Eckes, Suzanne E.

    2007-01-01

    At the outset of the charter school movement, some opponents feared that charter schools would become havens for White students wishing to flee the traditional public school system, resulting in publicly funded segregation. However, studies suggest that this has not occurred. In fact, charter schools on average remain slightly racially segregated,…

  10. National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2016 Annual Report

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016

    2016-01-01

    This 2016 annual report shares many of the accomplishments achieved by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools including the 25th anniversary of the passage of the very first charter school law. This report highlights the successes in 2016: (1) A call to action to better regulate virtual charter schools; (2) First ever national parent…

  11. Charter School Autonomy: The Mismatch between Theory and Practice

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    Finnigan, Kara S.

    2007-01-01

    In theory, the charter school concept is based on a trade-off or exchange: greater autonomy for increased accountability. Although charter schools have been operating for more than 10 years, little is known about charter school autonomy in practice. This mixed-methods study used survey and case study data to examine the degree of autonomy of…

  12. Teacher Recruitment and Teacher Quality? Are Charter Schools Different? Policy Report Number 20

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    Burian-Fitzgerald, Marisa; Harris, Debbi

    2004-01-01

    Charter schools are expected to be innovative and to look different than traditional public schools. There is evidence that charter school administrators are taking advantage of opportunities to be innovative in their hiring practices and that teachers in charter schools look different than their colleagues in traditional public schools. It is not…

  13. The Introduction of Religious Charter Schools: A Cultural Movement in the Private School Sector

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    Bailey, Marcia J. Harr; Cooper, Bruce S.

    2009-01-01

    Charter schools are opening, and religious associations are also sponsoring these schools since religious groups find private school tuitions to be high and prohibitive. This study includes studies of Tarek ibn Ziyad Academy, a Minnesota Arabic charter school (Blaine and Inver Grove Heights, MN); Ben Gamla Charter School, a Florida English-Hebrew…

  14. Trends in State Charter School Laws: Authorizers, Caps, Performance-Based Closures and Virtual Schools

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    Christie, Kathy; Millard, Maria; Thomsen, Jennifer; Wixom, Micah

    2014-01-01

    Forty-two states and the District of Columbia have enacted charter school legislation. The Education Commission of the States (ECS) analysts reviewed laws in the 50 states in creating an online database that highlights how state charter school laws vary, particularly in how states establish standards and accountability for charter school…

  15. Creating Working Partnerships: How Can School Districts and Charter Schools Work Together Effectively? Knowledge Brief.

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    Izu, JoAnn

    Drawing on the Los Angeles Unified School District's experiences with charter schools, this brief highlights the difficulties in balancing the twin needs of charter-school autonomy and accountability, and their implications for the way in which charter schools and districts can work together. It identifies key challenges in district-school…

  16. A Profile of the Leadership Needs of Charter School Founders.

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    Lane, Brett

    This report presents the research and development undertaken in the first year of a 3-year project to develop a Model Leadership Training Program for charter-school founders. The report provides detailed descriptions and analysis of charter schools' leadership needs and what is required to found and sustain a successful charter school. The text…

  17. New Rules, New Roles? The Professional Work Lives of Charter School Teachers. A Preliminary Study.

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    Koppich, Julia E.; Holmes, Patricia; Plecki, Margaret L.

    This study examines the teaching conditions of educators working in charter schools, exploring the involvement of teachers' unions and associations. Data came from a literature review, a teacher survey, and five case studies in various types of charter schools. Results from the literature review indicate that: state charter statutes are…

  18. Venturesome Capital: State Charter School Finance Systems. National Charter School Finance Study.

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    Nelson, F. Howard; Muir, Edward; Drown, Rachel

    This report examines the laws, regulations, and practices governing charter-school finance during the 1998-99 school year. The 23 states and 2 cities surveyed here had operative charter schools during 1997-98, and thus had a least one year of experience in implementing laws and developing financial practices. The report includes an estimation of…

  19. Educational Renegades: Dissatisfied Teachers as Drivers of Charter School Formation

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    Milliman, Scott; Maranto, Robert

    2009-01-01

    The U.S. charter school movement has expanded rapidly, but this growth is geographically uneven at the school district level. Focusing on Arizona--which has the least restrictive charter school law in the United States--we use district variables to determine the factors driving charter market share in 41 districts. Included in our analysis is an…

  20. Charter Schools. Leveraging Business Expertise To Improve Student Achievement. Successful Strategies Series.

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    National Alliance of Business, Inc., Washington, DC.

    This booklet provides business leaders and coalitions with information and resources they can use to support charter schools in their own communities. Section 1 provides a brief overview of the charter school movement and discusses the key features of charter schools, which are self-managed public schools that operate through performance contracts…

  1. Retrofitting Bureaucracy: Factors Influencing Charter Schools' Access to Federal Entitlement Programs

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    Rhim, Lauren Morando; Brinson, Dana

    2010-01-01

    Charter school laws and successful charter schools have been identified as key elements of bold initiatives to turn around chronically low-achieving public schools. Yet, charter schools operate in a policy space that was not constructed for them, a space in which public schools are primarily a state responsibility, but are markedly influenced by…

  2. Encouraging Districts and Charters to Link Arms to Solve Problems

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    Lake, Robin J.

    2017-01-01

    Charter schools and school districts have been at odds since the first charter school law passed in 1991. Districts resent the competition and subsequent funding loss for traditional schools. Charters resent the lack of access to facilities and other resources and attempts to infringe on their autonomy. Yet a fast-growing number of school…

  3. What Are the Differences between Effective and Ineffective Charter Schools in North Carolina?

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    Stone, Cedric L.

    2010-01-01

    This purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the North Carolina charter schools. The variables were chosen based on the researcher's inference from literature reviews discussing common factors from qualitative charter school studies. The indicators were used to determine if charter schools could be categorized as effective or…

  4. State Legislative Session Highlights for Public Charter Schools. Communications State Policy

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    Ziebarth, Todd

    2017-01-01

    There were a number of historic public charter school policy wins across the country in 2017. Kentucky became the 44th state (along with the District of Columbia) to enact a charter school law. Colorado and Florida provided charter school students with unprecedented access to locally raised dollars for facilities. Tennessee and Texas created new…

  5. Are Charter Schools Safer in Deindustrialized Cities with High Rates of Crime? Testing Hypotheses in Detroit

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    Hamlin, Daniel

    2017-01-01

    Families in deindustrialized cities with high crime rates report prioritizing school safety when opting for charter schools. Yet, very little research has investigated whether charter schools are safer than traditional public schools. This study compares charter and traditional public schools in Detroit, Michigan, on perceived school safety by…

  6. Teaching to the Student: Charter School Effectiveness in Spite of Perverse Incentives

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    Cohodes, Sarah R.

    2016-01-01

    Recent work has shown that Boston charter schools raise standardized test scores more than their traditional school counterparts. Critics of charter schools argue that charter schools create those achievement gains by focusing exclusively on test preparation, at the expense of deeper learning. In this paper, I test that critique by estimating the…

  7. 14 CFR 249.21 - Preservation of records by public charter operators and overseas military personnel charter...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Preservation of records by public charter operators and overseas military personnel charter operators. 249.21 Section 249.21 Aeronautics and Space... of an authorized representative of the DOT. (a) All receipts and statements of travel agents and all...

  8. The Influence of Finance and Accountability Policies on Location of New York State Charter Schools

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    Bifulco, Robert; Buerger, Christian

    2015-01-01

    This article identifies a set of location incentives created by New York's charter school financing and accountability provisions. We then use regression models to examine the location of charter schools across and within districts. We find that charter schools (1) are significantly more likely to locate in districts with high operating expenses…

  9. Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools: Evidence from Boston's Charters and Pilots. NBER Working Paper No. 15549

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    Abdulkadiroglu, Atila; Angrist, Joshua; Dynarski, Susan; Kane, Thomas J.; Pathak, Parag

    2009-01-01

    Charter schools are publicly funded but operate outside the regulatory framework and collective bargaining agreements characteristic of traditional public schools. In return for this freedom, charter schools are subject to heightened accountability. This paper estimates the impact of charter school attendance on student achievement using data from…

  10. A Study of the Factors Influencing Parental Choice of a Charter School

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    Ekanem, Imaobong Columba

    2013-01-01

    The study discussed in this dissertation identified and examined the factors that influence parent charter school choice. The study was conducted for a rural K-8 charter school in Delaware. The survey instrument used was a parent questionnaire which contained questions that examined the reasons for parent charter school choice, the features of…

  11. Equal Access? Analyzing Charter Location Relative to Demographics in Ohio

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    Saultz, Andrew; Yaluma, Christopher B.

    2017-01-01

    We analyze the geographical distribution of, and access to, charter schools in the state of Ohio. Using poverty and race data from the U.S. Census, as well as publicly available student achievement scores, we analyze the locational preferences of charter schools. We use Geographic Information System (GIS) to visual display charter school locations…

  12. 14 CFR 249.21 - Preservation of records by public charter operators and overseas military personnel charter...

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Preservation of records by public charter operators and overseas military personnel charter operators. 249.21 Section 249.21 Aeronautics and Space... of an authorized representative of the DOT. (a) All receipts and statements of travel agents and all...

  13. New Mexico Charter Schools Annual Report

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    New Mexico Public Education Department, 2013

    2013-01-01

    In 2011, the New Mexico legislature passed changes to the Charter School Act that provided more accountability for both charters and authorizers in New Mexico. As part of that law, the Public Education Department (PED) is asked to submit an annual report on the status of charter schools in New Mexico. This is the first report submitted under that…

  14. 76 FR 4322 - Charter Schools Program (CSP); Office of Innovation and Improvement; Overview Information...

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    2011-01-25

    ... to 8 points). The State has demonstrated progress in increasing the number of high-quality charter... the LEA implementing a restructuring plan under section 1116(b)(8) of the ESEA; or (2) the creation of... reopens a school under a charter school operator, a charter management organization, or an education...

  15. Operationalization of the Ghanaian Patients’ Charter in a Peri-urban Public Hospital: Voices of Healthcare Workers and Patients

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    Yarney, Lily; Buabeng, Thomas; Baidoo, Diana; Bawole, Justice Nyigmah

    2016-01-01

    Background: Health is a basic human right necessary for the exercise of other human rights. Every human being is, therefore, entitled to the highest possible standard of health necessary to living a life of dignity. Establishment of patients’ Charter is a step towards protecting the rights and responsibilities of patients, but violation of patients’ rights is common in healthcare institutions, especially in the developing world. This study which was conducted between May 2013 and May 2014, assessed the operationalization of Ghana’s Patients Charter in a peri-urban public hospital. Methods: Qualitative data collection methods were used to collect data from 25 healthcare workers and patients who were purposively selected. The interview data were analyzed manually, using the principles of systematic text condensation. Results: The findings indicate that the healthcare staff of the Polyclinic are aware of the existence of the patients’ Charter and also know some of its contents. Patients have no knowledge of the existence or the contents of the Charter. Availability of the Charter, community sensitization, monitoring and orientation of staff are factors that promote the operationalization of the Charter, while institutional implementation procedures such as lack of complaint procedures and low knowledge among patients militate against operationalization of the Charter. Conclusion: Public health facilities should ensure that their patients are well-informed about their rights and responsibilities to facilitate effective implementation of the Charter. Also, patients’ rights and responsibilities can be dramatized and broadcasted on television and radio in major Ghanaian languages to enhance awareness of Ghanaians on the Charter. PMID:27694679

  16. Operationalization of the Ghanaian Patients' Charter in a Peri-urban Public Hospital: Voices of Healthcare Workers and Patients.

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    Yarney, Lily; Buabeng, Thomas; Baidoo, Diana; Bawole, Justice Nyigmah

    2016-04-23

    Health is a basic human right necessary for the exercise of other human rights. Every human being is, therefore, entitled to the highest possible standard of health necessary to living a life of dignity. Establishment of patients' Charter is a step towards protecting the rights and responsibilities of patients, but violation of patients' rights is common in healthcare institutions, especially in the developing world. This study which was conducted between May 2013 and May 2014, assessed the operationalization of Ghana's Patients Charter in a peri-urban public hospital. Qualitative data collection methods were used to collect data from 25 healthcare workers and patients who were purposively selected. The interview data were analyzed manually, using the principles of systematic text condensation. The findings indicate that the healthcare staff of the Polyclinic are aware of the existence of the patients' Charter and also know some of its contents. Patients have no knowledge of the existence or the contents of the Charter. Availability of the Charter, community sensitization, monitoring and orientation of staff are factors that promote the operationalization of the Charter, while institutional implementation procedures such as lack of complaint procedures and low knowledge among patients militate against operationalization of the Charter. Public health facilities should ensure that their patients are well-informed about their rights and responsibilities to facilitate effective implementation of the Charter. Also, patients' rights and responsibilities can be dramatized and broadcasted on television and radio in major Ghanaian languages to enhance awareness of Ghanaians on the Charter. © 2016 by Kerman University of Medical Sciences

  17. User involvement in the construction of a mental health charter: an exercise in communicative rationality?

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    Hodge, Suzanne M.

    2009-01-01

    Abstract Background  This paper uses Jürgen Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action as a lens through which to examine the development of a local mental health charter. Objective  To assess whether the Charter represents the product of a communicatively rational process. Research design and setting  The paper is based on an analysis of the text of the Charter, and on documentation relating to its development, including notes of discussion groups used to identify its themes. Findings  An analysis of the notes of the discussion groups against the text of the Charter shows that the Charter’s themes are based broadly on the views generated in the discussion groups. However, they also draw on norms derived from wider discourses not reflected in the discussion groups, and exclude other specific local issues. The strength of feeling expressed in the discussion groups is also toned down in the language of the Charter. Discussion  The development of the Charter was based on a participatory process that can be said to have contained elements of both communicative and strategic rationality. The strategic rationality involved in translating service users’ views into language that would be acceptable to those working in the system can be seen as necessary for the Charter to succeed in bringing about change. In drawing also on communicatively generated norms from the wider public sphere the Charter can be seen as reflecting a form of generalized communicative rationality. Conclusion  The Charter represents a ‘sluice’ by which communicative rationality is drawn into the mental health system. PMID:19754689

  18. A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement: Schools, Students, and Management Organizations, 2015-16

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016

    2016-01-01

    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, "A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement: Schools, Students, and Management Organizations, 2015-16." The report also estimates that the total number of…

  19. Massachusetts Charter Public Schools: Best Practices in Curricular Innovation. White Paper No. 141

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    Candal, Cara Stillings

    2016-01-01

    The ongoing push to raise or eliminate the charter school cap in Massachusetts provides an opportunity to reflect upon the purpose of charter schools. When the legislature created the Commonwealth's charter school law, as a part of the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Act (MERA), it clearly stated a main reason for these new schools was…

  20. 34 CFR 76.788 - What are a charter school LEA's responsibilities under this subpart?

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    2011-07-01

    ... subpart? (a) Notice. At least 120 days before the date a charter school LEA is scheduled to open or... charter school LEA must provide to the SEA any available data or information that the SEA may reasonably... enrollment, the charter school LEA must provide actual enrollment and eligibility data to the SEA at a time...

  1. 34 CFR 76.788 - What are a charter school LEA's responsibilities under this subpart?

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    2010-07-01

    ... subpart? (a) Notice. At least 120 days before the date a charter school LEA is scheduled to open or... charter school LEA must provide to the SEA any available data or information that the SEA may reasonably... enrollment, the charter school LEA must provide actual enrollment and eligibility data to the SEA at a time...

  2. Florida Charter Schools: Hot and Humid with Passing Storms. Education Sector Reports: Charter School Series

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    Hassel, Bryan C.; Terrell, Michelle Godard; Kowal, Julie

    2006-01-01

    Among many publicly-funded school choice initiatives that have earned Florida the label "school choice central", none has reached as many children and families as charter schools. Charter schools have flourished in Florida largely because of the state's rapid population growth: many of the districts that are experiencing more than a 10…

  3. Federal Investment in Charter Schools: A Proposal for Reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act

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    Lazarin, Melissa

    2011-01-01

    The charter school landscape is dramatically different today compared to when the federal government first forayed into the field in 1994. That year it established the Charter School Program as part of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA. The Charter School Program, which is designed to support the startup of new public charter…

  4. Avoiding Accountability: How Charter Operators Evade Ohio's Automatic Closure Law. K-12 Education

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    DePaoli, Jennifer; van Lier, Piet

    2013-01-01

    Ohio's charter-closure law is touted as one of the toughest in the nation because it requires the automatic closure of charter schools that consistently fail to meet academic standards. Ohio's charter-closure law, which became effective in 2008 and was revised in 2011, calls for automatic closure of schools rated in Academic Emergency for at least…

  5. Two Decades of Charter Schools: Expectations, Reality, and the Future

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    Toma, Eugenia; Zimmer, Ron

    2012-01-01

    The first charter school law was passed in Minnesota in 1991 and with it, a new school reform movement began. After two decades, 41 states and Washington D.C. have adopted charter legislation. This special issue provides an opportunity for scholars to reflect upon the promises and limitations of charter schools and to offer policy advice for those…

  6. The Growing Segmentation of the Charter School Sector in North Carolina

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    Ladd, Helen F.; Clotfelter, Charles T.; Holbein, John B.

    2017-01-01

    A defining characteristic of charter schools is that they introduce a strong market element into public education. In this paper, we examine through the lens of a market model the evolution of the charter school sector in North Carolina between 1999 and 2012. We examine trends in the mix of students enrolled in charter schools, the racial…

  7. Charting a Clear Course: A Resource Guide for Building Successful Partnerships between Charter Schools and School Management Organizations. Second Edition.

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    Hassel, Bryan; Lin, Margaret

    As the charter-school option has expanded across the country, contracting for educational management services is an increasingly available and attractive choice for charter-school governing boards and founding groups. To make contractual relationships work well, charter-school boards need to strike an effective balance between fulfilling their…

  8. 34 CFR 76.788 - What are a charter school LEA's responsibilities under this subpart?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... subpart? (a) Notice. At least 120 days before the date a charter school LEA is scheduled to open or... charter school LEA must provide to the SEA any available data or information that the SEA may reasonably... enrollment, the charter school LEA must provide actual enrollment and eligibility data to the SEA at a time...

  9. 34 CFR 76.788 - What are a charter school LEA's responsibilities under this subpart?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-07-01

    ... subpart? (a) Notice. At least 120 days before the date a charter school LEA is scheduled to open or... charter school LEA must provide to the SEA any available data or information that the SEA may reasonably... enrollment, the charter school LEA must provide actual enrollment and eligibility data to the SEA at a time...

  10. 34 CFR 76.788 - What are a charter school LEA's responsibilities under this subpart?

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-07-01

    ... subpart? (a) Notice. At least 120 days before the date a charter school LEA is scheduled to open or... charter school LEA must provide to the SEA any available data or information that the SEA may reasonably... enrollment, the charter school LEA must provide actual enrollment and eligibility data to the SEA at a time...

  11. Parents, Homevoters, and Public School Employees: An Analysis of Voting Patterns in the 2012 Georgia Charter Schools Amendment Referendum

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    Conaway, Brooke; Scafidi, Benjamin; Stephenson, E. F.

    2016-01-01

    Georgia's 2012 Charter Schools Amendment was the first successful statewide school choice referendum in the United States. This amendment permitted the state to authorize new charter schools, thereby creating a way for charter creators to bypass local school boards. This study analyzes voting on this state constitutional amendment and finds that…

  12. Music Programs in Charter and Traditional Schools: A Comparative Study of Chicago Elementary Schools

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    Kelley, Jamey; Demorest, Steven M.

    2016-01-01

    Since the arrival of the first charter school in Minnesota in 1991, charter schools have become one of the largest movements in educational reform. In recent years, research has emerged that has compared the effectiveness of charter schools with their traditional school counterparts. The purpose of this study was to compare the extent of music…

  13. Does Charter Status Determine Preferences? Comparing the Hiring Preferences of Charter and Traditional Public School Principals

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    Cannata, Marisa; Engel, Mimi

    2012-01-01

    The academic success of any school depends on its teachers. However, relatively little research exists on the qualities principals value in teacher hiring, and we know almost nothing about charter school principals' preferences. This article addresses this gap in the literature using survey results for a matched sample of charter and traditional…

  14. Evaluation of New Texas Charter Schools: Second Interim Report (2007-10). Executive Summary

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    Maloney, Catherine; Sheehan, Daniel; Rainey, Katharine

    2011-01-01

    The Texas Education Agency (TEA) was awarded Charter School Program (CSP) funding in 2007, and specified that the required evaluation would focus on the experiences and outcomes of new charter schools authorized to begin serving students across 4 school years: 2006-07, 2007-08, 2008-09, and 2009-10. TEA categorizes charter schools in terms of…

  15. Organizational Environments and the Emergence of Charter Schools in the United States.

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    Renzulli, Linda A.

    2005-01-01

    There is a growing abundance of research on outcomes of charter schools for children, teachers, and communities, yet a paucity of research on why and how charter schools form in the first place. This article presents unique data on charter school applications to show how the early stages of school formation are embedded in, if not driven by, an…

  16. Charter Schools in an Arena of Competitive Educational Reforms: An Analysis of the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey

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    Lin, Zeng; Gardner, Dianne C.; Vogt, W. Paul

    2005-01-01

    Accountability countability, choice, equity, and social cohesion are core parts of the public debates over the charter school movement. To examine these important issues, we utilize the "1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey" to estimate the possible charter effect on public and private schools. Analyses of charter, public,and private schools…

  17. Opening Procedures Handbook. A Guide for Boards of Trustees and Leaders of New Charter Schools

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    Massachusetts Department of Education, 2006

    2006-01-01

    The Charter School Office has created the Opening Procedures Handbook as a tool to assist charter school founding groups prepare for the exciting, yet challenging, task of opening a Massachusetts public charter school. The Handbook summarizes the opening procedures process, identifies the action items that must be completed prior to the school's…

  18. 75 FR 56903 - Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska

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    2010-09-17

    .... 100503209-0430-02] RIN 0648-AY85 Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels... program for charter vessels in the guided sport fishery for Pacific halibut in the waters of International... sport fishing for halibut and charter vessels in IPHC Areas 2C and 3A may be found in sections 3, 25...

  19. 75 FR 38758 - Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels in Alaska

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    2010-07-06

    .... 100503209-0215-01] RIN 0648-AY85 Pacific Halibut Fisheries; Limited Access for Guided Sport Charter Vessels... that would amend the limited access program for charter vessels in the guided sport fishery for Pacific... 13024). IPHC regulations affecting sport fishing for halibut and charter vessels in IPHC Areas 2C and 3A...

  20. Why the Gap? English Language Learners and New York City Charter Schools. Civic Report No. 93

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    Winters, Marcus A.

    2014-01-01

    The significant growth of charter schools in the United States has brought both praise for the excellent results achieved by some schools and criticism that charter schools may not be serving the most disadvantaged students. In New York City and elsewhere, a significantly smaller proportion of students enrolled in charter schools are classified as…

  1. Bang for the Buck: Autonomy and Charter School Efficiency in Milwaukee

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    Flanders, Will

    2017-01-01

    Charter schools are a relatively new phenomenon in American education. Since the first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1991, they have expanded to 42 states and represent 6.2% of all public schools in the country. This growth has been attributed to a number of factors, chief among them evidence that charter schools can improve performance…

  2. Are Bad Schools Immortal? The Scarcity of Turnarounds and Shutdowns in Both Charter and District Sectors

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    Stuit, David A.

    2010-01-01

    This study investigates the successes of the charter and district sectors in eliminating bad schools via dramatic turnarounds in performance and/or shutdowns. It identified 2,025 low-performing charter and district schools across ten states, each of which is home to a sizable number of charter schools. These particular schools were tracked from…

  3. So, You Want to Start a Charter? La Escuela Freire: A Charter School Case Study

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    Herzog, Anat

    2017-01-01

    This case study attempts to better understand the nuances of charter school impact by documenting the story of the Board of La Escuela Freire (the Board), a group attempting to open a democratic, social justice charter school in Santa Ana, California. In asking the question: "What has been the development process of La Escuela Freire?",…

  4. 14 CFR Appendix A to Part 372 - Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the Special...

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    2014-01-01

    ... Appendix A to Part 372—Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the... military personnel charters to be operated subject to Part 372 of the Department's Special Regulations in... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Overseas Military Personnel Charter...

  5. 14 CFR Appendix A to Part 372 - Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the Special...

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    2010-01-01

    ... Appendix A to Part 372—Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the... military personnel charters to be operated subject to Part 372 of the Department's Special Regulations in... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Overseas Military Personnel Charter...

  6. 14 CFR Appendix A to Part 372 - Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the Special...

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    2013-01-01

    ... Appendix A to Part 372—Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the... military personnel charters to be operated subject to Part 372 of the Department's Special Regulations in... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Overseas Military Personnel Charter...

  7. 14 CFR Appendix A to Part 372 - Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the Special...

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    2011-01-01

    ... Appendix A to Part 372—Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the... military personnel charters to be operated subject to Part 372 of the Department's Special Regulations in... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Overseas Military Personnel Charter...

  8. 14 CFR Appendix A to Part 372 - Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the Special...

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    2012-01-01

    ... Appendix A to Part 372—Overseas Military Personnel Charter Operator's Surety Bond Under Part 372 of the... military personnel charters to be operated subject to Part 372 of the Department's Special Regulations in... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Overseas Military Personnel Charter...

  9. National Alliance for Public Charter Schools 2017 Annual Report: I Am the Future

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    National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2017

    2017-01-01

    This 2017 annual report shares many of the accomplishments achieved by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools for the year. 2017 saw improvements to state charter school laws, groundbreaking research projects, and the creation of a new legal action fund that will help to defend and expand access to charter schools. This 2017 Annual…

  10. Characteristics of Competitive Pressure Created by Charter Schools: Charter Schools, Their Impact on Traditional Public Districts and the Role of District Leadership

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    Cummins, Cathy

    2014-01-01

    This mixed methods sequential explanatory designed study applied the economic theory of marketplace competition as a way to frame superintendents' perceptions of the characteristics of students and parents seeking charter schools. Although studies on charter schools are abundant, there is limited literature on this particular aspect of market…

  11. The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness. Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

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    Furgeson, Joshua; Gill, Brian; Haimson, Joshua; Killewald, Alexandra; McCullough, Moira; Nichols-Barrer, Ira; Teh, Bing-ru; Verbitsky-Savitz, Natalya; Bowen, Melissa; Demeritt, Allison; Hill, Paul; Lake, Robin

    2011-01-01

    Charter schools--public schools of choice that are operated autonomously, outside the direct control of local school districts--have become more prevalent over the past two decades. There is no consensus about whether, on average, charter schools are doing better or worse than conventional public schools at promoting the achievement of their…

  12. Equity at Scale: How Public Charter School Networks Can Innovate and Improve Services for Students with Disabilities

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    O'Neill, Paul T.; Rhim, Lauren Morando

    2015-01-01

    When public charter schools first opened in the early 1990s, each was unique and independent. But as successful public charter schools continued to grow and expand their impact beyond a single site, and as organizations developed school designs that could be implemented at multiple locations, networks of public charter schools emerged. The public…

  13. Questions to Consider When Creating or Modifying Charter School Laws. ECS Education Policy Analysis

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    Aragon, Stephanie

    2015-01-01

    The first charter school law surfaced in Minnesota in 1991, and since then, 42 additional states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have passed laws governing charter schools. Yet still today, the details within those state laws vary significantly, and seven states do not have a law at all. Legislation permitting charter schools was…

  14. The Effect of Charter Schools on Charter Students and Public Schools. Occasional Paper.

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    Bettinger, Eric

    This paper is a report on a study of the effect of charter schools on both students attending them and students in neighboring public schools in Michigan. Using school-level data from Michigan's standardized testing program, the study compared changes in tests scores between charter and public school students. The data included annual math and…

  15. "No Excuses" Charter Schools: A Meta-Analysis of the Experimental Evidence on Student Achievement

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    Cheng, Albert; Hitt, Collin; Kisida, Brian; Mills, Jonathan N.

    2017-01-01

    Many most well-known charter schools in the United States use a "No Excuses" approach. We conduct the first meta-analysis of the achievement impacts of No Excuses charter schools, focusing on experimental, lottery-based studies. We estimate that No Excuses charter schools increase student math and literacy achievement by 0.25 and 0.17,…

  16. Overcoming the Unhealthy Pursuit of Thinness: Reaction to the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image

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    Steiger, Howard

    2012-01-01

    Objectives. We examined the population reach, acceptability, and perceived potential of an initiative that developed a promotional tool for a healthy body image, the Québec Charter for a Healthy and Diverse Body Image. The Charter, developed through consensus building by a multisectoral, government-led task force, outlined actions to be undertaken by organizations or citizens to reduce media pressures favoring thinness. Methods. Six months after the Charter’s launch, we surveyed 1003 Québec residents aged 18 years or older about their knowledge of the Charter, their willingness to adhere to it, and their perceptions of its potential. Results. After minimal prompting, more than 35% of respondents recognized the Charter. About 33.7% were very favorable toward personally adhering to the Charter and 32.7% perceived the Charter as having high potential to sensitize people to negative consequences of disordered eating. Women showed greater likelihood and people with lesser education showed lower likelihood of spontaneous recognition. Conclusions. An initiative involving the creation of a body image Charter reaches a substantial portion of adults and is viewed as acceptable and potentially influential. PMID:22698056

  17. Region 9 RTOC Charter

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    U.S. EPA Pacific Southwest (Region 9) Regional Tribal Operations Committee (RTOC) Charter as amended 11/13/2014: Mission, Goals, Scope, Structure & Membership, Meetings, Administration, Charter Amendment/Review, and Current Working Draft.

  18. Consequences of team charter quality: Teamwork mental model similarity and team viability in engineering design student teams

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    Conway Hughston, Veronica

    Since 1996 ABET has mandated that undergraduate engineering degree granting institutions focus on learning outcomes such as professional skills (i.e. solving unstructured problems and working in teams). As a result, engineering curricula were restructured to include team based learning---including team charters. Team charters were diffused into engineering education as one of many instructional activities to meet the ABET accreditation mandates. However, the implementation and execution of team charters into engineering team based classes has been inconsistent and accepted without empirical evidence of the consequences. The purpose of the current study was to investigate team effectiveness, operationalized as team viability, as an outcome of team charter implementation in an undergraduate engineering team based design course. Two research questions were the focus of the study: a) What is the relationship between team charter quality and viability in engineering student teams, and b) What is the relationship among team charter quality, teamwork mental model similarity, and viability in engineering student teams? Thirty-eight intact teams, 23 treatment and 15 comparison, participated in the investigation. Treatment teams attended a team charter lecture, and completed a team charter homework assignment. Each team charter was assessed and assigned a quality score. Comparison teams did not join the lecture, and were not asked to create a team charter. All teams completed each data collection phase: a) similarity rating pretest; b) similarity posttest; and c) team viability survey. Findings indicate that team viability was higher in teams that attended the lecture and completed the charter assignment. Teams with higher quality team charter scores reported higher levels of team viability than teams with lower quality charter scores. Lastly, no evidence was found to support teamwork mental model similarity as a partial mediator of the team charter quality on team viability relationship. Foci for future research opportunities include using: a) online data collection methods to improve participant adherence to similarity rating instructions; b) story or narratives during pre- and posttest similarity rating data collection to create common levels of contextual perception; and c) support to ensure charters are integrated into the full project life cycle, not just a pre-project one time isolated activity. Twenty five sections, on average, of EDSGN 100 are taught each spring and fall semester. Consistent instructor expectations are set for the technical aspects of the course. However, ideas to foster team effectiveness are often left to the discretion of the individual instructor. Implementing empirically tested team effectiveness instructional activities would bring consistency to EDGSN 100 curriculum. Other instructional activities that would be of benefit to engineering educators include qualitative inquiry---asking intrateam process questions (at the mid-point of the project) and in-class reflection---dedicated time, post project, to discuss what went well/not well within the team.

  19. Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students. Civic Report No. 60

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    Winters, Marcus A.

    2009-01-01

    Charter schools have recently emerged as popular and effective alternatives to traditional public schools. Less than two decades since charter schools first came on the scene, the nation has 4,578 charter schools dispersed across forty-one states and the District of Columbia. These schools enroll 1.4 million students, and their rapid growth shows…

  20. Avoiding Accountability: How Charter Operators Evade Ohio's Automatic Closure Law. K-12 Education. Executive Summary

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    DePaoli, Jennifer; van Lier, Piet

    2013-01-01

    Ohio's charter-closure law is touted as one of the toughest in the nation because it requires the automatic closure of charter schools that consistently fail to meet academic standards. Ohio's charter-closure law, which became effective in 2008 and was revised in 2011, calls for automatic closure of schools rated in Academic Emergency for at least…

  1. Quality Seen as Job One for Charters: Sector Explores Ways to Spur Rising Tide of Strong Results

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    Robelen, Erik W.

    2009-01-01

    When President Barack Obama pledged on the campaign trail last September to step up federal aid for "successful" charter schools, he was touching on a matter of mounting concern: how to ensure better and more consistent quality across the growing charter sector. Amid worry about the mixed academic results for charter schools--and a belief that too…

  2. Do Charter Schools Crowd out Private School Enrollment? Evidence from Michigan. Staff Report No. 472

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    Chakrabarti, Rajashri; Roy, Joydeep

    2011-01-01

    Charter schools have been one of the most important dimensions of recent school reform measures in the United States. Currently, there are more than 5,000 charter schools spread across forty U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Though there have been numerous studies on the effects of charter schools, these have mostly been confined to…

  3. Challenge and Opportunity: The Impact of Charter Schools on School Districts. A Report of the National Study of Charter Schools.

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    Ericson, John; Silverman, Debra; Berman, Paul; Nelson, Beryl; Solomon, Debra

    This report examines the operational and educational changes that school administrators attribute to charter schools. It is part of the U.S. Department of Education's 4-year study to document and analyze the charter-school movement. The study asked two questions: What changes have districts made in district operations and district education that…

  4. NEPC Review: "New York Charter Schools Outperform Traditional Selective Public Schools--More Evidence That Cream-Skimming Is Not Driving Charters' Success"

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    Cordes, Sarah A.

    2017-01-01

    A common argument leveled against charter schools is that they attract the most motivated and intelligent students from already struggling public schools. Marcus Winters seeks to examine this claim, known as "cream-skimming," by comparing the performance of New York City's (NYC) charter middle schools with a set of traditional selective…

  5. The Relationship between Florida's Traditional Schools, Education Management Organization Charters, and Hometown Charters Fiscal Revenues and Instructional Expenditures on Student Achievement

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    Larkin, Brittany

    2016-01-01

    This research explores the differences in revenue reported after accounting for charter funds passing through district budgets between Florida's traditional schools and charter schools at both the state level and the individual district level. Differences in the percentage of the revenues the schools are expending on instructional services are…

  6. Charters and the Common Good: The Spillover Effects of Charter Schools in New York City

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    Cordes, Sarah A.

    2018-01-01

    Charter Schools represent a small share of the national education market: just 6.2 percent of all public schools and 4.6 percent of all students. But their rapid growth over the past two decades has captured an outsized measure of public attention, especially in communities where district and charter schools operate side by side. At New York…

  7. District-Charter Partnerships: Collaboration to Advance Teaching and Learning in New York City. Year 1 Evaluation Results (2016-17)

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    Litt, J.; Fishel, G.

    2017-01-01

    The Office of School Design and Charter Partnerships (OSDCP) at the New York City Department of Education (DOE) developed and executed a plan for district-charter collaboration, which they called the District-Charter Partnerships (DCP) initiative. This document describes the results of a mixed-method study of DCP conducted during the 2016-17…

  8. A Comparison of the Perceptions of School Work Culture by Administrators and Faculty in the Public Charter and Non-Charter Elementary Schools of a Central Florida County

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    Quin, Wayne Anthony

    2012-01-01

    This study investigated perceptions of school work culture of instructional staff members (administrators and faculty) in public charter and public non-charter elementary schools in a large urban metropolitan county of Central Florida by assessing differences in perceptions of administrators and faculty related to school work culture, perceptions…

  9. 22 CFR 214.13 - Responsibilities within A.I.D.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-04-01

    ... agency file of approved charters and formal determinations; (5) Publishes approved charters in the Agency... determinations in the Federal Register; and (8) Transmits approved advisory committee charters to the House...

  10. 46 CFR 535.312 - Vessel charter party-exemption.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... agreement sets forth the entire terms and conditions (including duration, charter hire, and geographical or operational limitations, if any) under which the vessel will be employed. (b) Vessel charter parties, as...

  11. 14 CFR 252.19 - Single-entity charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ...) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS SMOKING ABOARD AIRCRAFT § 252.19 Single-entity charters. On single-entity charters... flights is given notice of the smoking procedures for the flight at the time he or she first makes...

  12. 14 CFR 252.19 - Single-entity charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ...) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS SMOKING ABOARD AIRCRAFT § 252.19 Single-entity charters. On single-entity charters... flights is given notice of the smoking procedures for the flight at the time he or she first makes...

  13. 14 CFR 252.19 - Single-entity charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ...) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS SMOKING ABOARD AIRCRAFT § 252.19 Single-entity charters. On single-entity charters... flights is given notice of the smoking procedures for the flight at the time he or she first makes...

  14. 14 CFR 252.19 - Single-entity charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ...) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS SMOKING ABOARD AIRCRAFT § 252.19 Single-entity charters. On single-entity charters... flights is given notice of the smoking procedures for the flight at the time he or she first makes...

  15. 14 CFR 252.19 - Single-entity charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ...) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS SMOKING ABOARD AIRCRAFT § 252.19 Single-entity charters. On single-entity charters... flights is given notice of the smoking procedures for the flight at the time he or she first makes...

  16. Charter school education in Texas: Student achievement on the exit level assessment in math and science

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    Turner, Jeffery E.

    Public schools in the state of Texas are held accountable for performance and quality of education. Accountability is important to all schools, but it is critical to open-enrollment charter schools to remain in good standing. The current economic situation in Texas public education has brought attention as well as the need for alternative education programs such as charter schools. It is of the utmost importance for charter schools to illustrate that they are meeting the academic needs of the target market. This study addressed student achievement, as well as expenditure per student in both charter schools and traditional schools in the Region 10 educational service center. The datum for the study were obtained from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) website, specifically the Academic Excellence Indicator System Data (AEIS) files for the 2011-2012. The study sample included 30 open-enrollment charters schools and 30 traditional high schools within the Region 10 educational service center during the school year of 2011-2012. The research study determined significant statistical differences between open-enrollment charter schools and traditional high schools. The potential for the study was to gain additional knowledge and insight along with additional data for the open-enrollment charter schools and traditional schools in the Region 10 Educational Service Center. The study has potentially increased the information for researchers and practitioners in education. In addition this study has proved charter schools are a viable and an effective educational tool for the future.

  17. A Comparative Analysis of Charter Schools and Neighboring Traditional Public Schools' Reading and Math Performance in South Texas

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    Montemayor, Karla Paola

    2017-01-01

    Throughout the past five to ten years in South Texas, there was a high demand for opening charter schools. Charter schools became the innovative educational reform that provided a plausible solution of schooling other than traditional public schools in South Texas. As of 2014-2015, there were 689 charter schools in Texas serving 238,091 students,…

  18. Sponsors of Policy: A Network Analysis of Wealthy Elites, Their Affiliated Philanthropies, and Charter School Reform in Washington State

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    Au, Wayne; Ferrare, Joseph J.

    2014-01-01

    Background/Context: Charter school policy has evolved into a major component of the current education reform movement in the United States. As of 2012, all but nine U.S. states allowed charter schools, and in one of those nine, Washington State, charter school legislation was passed by popular vote in November 2012. There is a substantial, if…

  19. Fourth Time Is the Charm: Charter School Policy and the Influence of the Elite in Washington State

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    Saultz, Andrew

    2017-01-01

    In 2011, Washington was one of only eight states that did not have a charter school law in state policy heading into the Race to the Top (RTTT) competition. The RTTT competition incentivized local education agencies not only to allow charter schools, but also to increase or eliminate the cap on the number of charter schools that a state allowed to…

  20. A Mission to Serve: How Public Charter Schools Are Designed to Meet the Diverse Demands of Our Communities. Issue Brief

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    Kern, Nora; Thukral, Renita; Ziebarth, Todd

    2012-01-01

    The public charter school movement has grown rapidly in the 20 years since the first public charter school opened in 1992, with over 5,600 schools now serving more than two million students. One of the most exceptional developments within the first two decades of the movement has been the rise of high performing public charter schools with…

  1. A Bigger Slice of the Money Pie: Charters in Colorado and Florida Win Share of Local Tax Dollars

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    Baxter, Parker; Ely, Todd L.; Teske, Paul

    2018-01-01

    Charter schools now educate nearly 3 million students in 43 states and the District of Columbia--more than 6 percent of the total K-12 public-school enrollment. Yet some 25 years after the first charter school opened in Minnesota, the merits of charters still incite debate among educators and the public. What is not often debated is that charter…

  2. Chartering Pre-K: How Natural Synergies between the Charter and Pre-K Movements Can Improve Public Education. Viewpoint

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    Mead, Sara

    2010-01-01

    Both the charter school and universal pre-K movements have grown substantially during the past 10 years. Nearly 5,000 charter schools now exist in 40 states and the District of Columbia, serving some 1.6 million students--up from 2,300 schools serving 580,000 students only a decade ago. The growth in state pre-kindergarten enrollments has…

  3. Charters in Our Midst: The Impact of Charter Schools on School Districts. A National Discussion with Views from Rural and Urban School Districts. [Booklets with Audiotapes].

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    North Central Regional Educational Lab., Oak Brook, IL.

    Along with national standards, charter schools are one of the most significant forces in education reform today. To their proponents, charter schools are revolutionary forces that help bring public education to world-class standards of quality. To skeptics, however, these forces threaten to undermine, or even destroy, this country's 150-year old…

  4. 41 CFR 105-54.203-2 - Active charters file.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Active charters file... Administration 54-ADVISORY COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT 54.2-Establishment of Advisory Committees § 105-54.203-2 Active... active charters. ...

  5. 41 CFR 105-54.203-2 - Active charters file.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Active charters file... Administration 54-ADVISORY COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT 54.2-Establishment of Advisory Committees § 105-54.203-2 Active... active charters. ...

  6. 41 CFR 105-54.203-2 - Active charters file.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Active charters file... Administration 54-ADVISORY COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT 54.2-Establishment of Advisory Committees § 105-54.203-2 Active... active charters. ...

  7. 41 CFR 105-54.203-2 - Active charters file.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 3 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Active charters file... Administration 54-ADVISORY COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT 54.2-Establishment of Advisory Committees § 105-54.203-2 Active... active charters. ...

  8. From Paper to Practice: Challenges Facing a California Charter School. A Report Presented to the San Diego Unified School Board. Executive Summary.

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    WestEd, San Francisco, CA.

    Signed into law on September 2, 1992, California's charter-school law has led to the approval of over 100 charter schools. San Diego City Schools (SDCS) was one of the first districts to sponsor charter schools, including the Harriet Tubman School, 1 year after the law became effective. This document provides a brief overview and summary of a case…

  9. From Paper to Practice: Challenges Facing a California Charter School. A Report Presented to the San Diego Unified School Board. Technical Report.

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    WestEd, San Francisco, CA.

    Signed into law on September 2, 1992, California's charter-school law has led to the approval of over 100 charter schools. San Diego City Schools (SDCS) was one of the first districts to sponsor charter schools, including the Harriet Tubman School, 1 year after the law became effective. This report provides a brief overview and summary of a case…

  10. 77 FR 71474 - Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee-Charter Renewal

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    2012-11-30

    ... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Aviation Administration Commercial Space Transportation... Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Announcement of Charter Renewal of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory... space transportation industry. This charter renewal will take effect on November 16, 2012, and will...

  11. Overview of Charter Schools. Hearing on Examining the Role of Charter Schools in Educational Reform, State and Federal Funds, and S. 1380 and H.R. 2616, Bills To Extend the Authorization of Funds through Fiscal Year 2002 for Titles VI and X of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act To Expand the Implementation of Public Charter Schools of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session.

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    Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

    Charter schools are public schools that are established through state law and are often released from traditional regulations that apply to public schools in return for an accountability system that emphasizes student outcomes. This hearing focused on how Federal education funds are distributed to charter schools; the academic and administrative…

  12. Translatoins on Eastern Europe Political, Sociological, and Military Affairs No. 1556

    DTIC Science & Technology

    1978-06-30

    Hejdanek and Marta Kubisova: "Statement of Charter 77 of 6 January 1978"] [Text] It has been a year since 241 citizens appealed to the constitutional...8217 initiative. Signed: Professor Dr Jiri Hajek, Spokesman of Charter 77 Dr Ladislav Hejdanek, Spokesman of Charter 77 Marta Kubisova, Spokesman of Charter 77...Sudi, party secre- tary of the Petofi Producer Cooperative in Janoshalom, by Borbala Szabo , a member of the Central Committee of the MSZMP and a

  13. Patient's rights charter in Iran.

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    Parsapoor, Alireza; Bagheri, Alireza; Larijani, Bagher

    2014-01-01

    Given the importance of patient's rights in healthcare, special attention has been given to the concept of patient's rights by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran. Iranian patient's rights charter has been compiled with a novel and comprehensive approach. This charter aims to elucidate rights of recipients of health services as well as observing ethical standards in medicine. This paper presents the Iranian patient's rights charter. Based on a study done from 2007 to 2009, the charter has been finalized through an extensive consultation involving all stakeholders, patients, physicians, nurses, lawyers, patient associations and health policy makers. The developed charter was adopted by the Ministry of Health in December 2009. Iranian patient's rights charter has been formulated in the framework of 5 chapters and 37 articles including vision and an explanatory note. The five chapters concern right to receiving appropriate services, right to access desired and enough information, right to choose and decide freely about receiving healthcare, right to privacy and confidentiality, and finally right to access an efficient system of dealing with complaints which have been explained in 14, 9, 7, 4 and 3 articles, respectively.  The paper concludes that, adopting the patient's rights charter is a valuable measure to meet patient's rights; however, a serious challenge is how to implement and acculturate observing patient's rights in practice in our healthcare system in Iran.

  14. Developing and implementing a service charter for an integrated regional stroke service: an exploratory case study

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    2014-01-01

    Background Based on practices in commercial organizations and public services, healthcare organizations are using service charters to inform patients about the quality of service they can expect and to increase patient-centeredness. In the Netherlands, an integrated regional stroke service involving five organizations has developed and implemented a single service charter. The purpose of this study is to determine the organizational enablers for the effective development and implementation of this service charter. Methods We have conducted an exploratory qualitative study using Grounded Theory to determine the organizational enablers of charter development and implementation. Individual semi-structured interviews were held with all members of the steering committee and the taskforce responsible for the service charter. In these twelve interviews, participants were retrospectively asked for their opinions of the enablers. Interview transcripts have been analysed using Glaser’s approach of substantive coding consisting of open and selective coding in order to develop a framework of these enablers. A tabula rasa approach was used without any preconceived frameworks used in the coding process. Results We have determined seven categories of enablers formed of a total of 27 properties. The categories address a broad spectrum of enablers dealing with the basic foundations for cooperation, the way to manage the project’s organization and the way to implement the service charter. In addition to the enablers within each individual organization, enablers that reflect the whole chain seem to be important for the effective development and implementation of this service charter. Strategic alignment of goals within the chain, trust between organizations, willingness to cooperate and the extent of process integration are all important properties. Conclusions This first exploratory study into the enablers of the effective development and implementation was based on a single case study in the Netherlands. This is the only integrated care chain using a single service charter that we could find. Nevertheless, the results of our explorative study provide an initial framework for the development and implementation of service charters in integrated care settings. This research contributes to the literature on service charters, on patient-centeredness in integrated care and on the implementation of innovations. PMID:24678839

  15. Strengthening health system governance using health facility service charters: a mixed methods assessment of community experiences and perceptions in a district in Kenya.

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    Atela, Martin; Bakibinga, Pauline; Ettarh, Remare; Kyobutungi, Catherine; Cohn, Simon

    2015-12-04

    Enhancing accountability in health systems is increasingly emphasised as crucial for improving the nature and quality of health service delivery worldwide and particularly in developing countries. Accountability mechanisms include, among others, health facilities committees, suggestion boxes, facility and patient charters. However, there is a dearth of information regarding the nature of and factors that influence the performance of accountability mechanisms, especially in developing countries. We examine community members' experiences of one such accountability mechanism, the health facility charter in Kericho District, Kenya. A household survey was conducted in 2011 among 1,024 respondents (36% male, 64% female) aged 17 years and above stratified by health facility catchment area, situated in a division in Kericho District. In addition, sixteen focus group discussions were conducted with health facility users in the four health facility catchment areas. Quantitative data were analysed through frequency distributions and cross-tabulations. Qualitative data were transcribed and analysed using a thematic approach. The majority (65%) of household survey respondents had seen their local facility service charter, 84% of whom had read the information on the charter. Of these, 83% found the charter to be useful or very useful. According to the respondents, the charters provided useful information about the services offered and their costs, gave users a voice to curb potential overcharging and helped users plan their medical expenses before receiving the service. However, community members cited several challenges with using the charters: non-adherence to charter provisions by health workers; illegibility and language issues; lack of expenditure records; lack of time to read and understand them, often due to pressures around queuing; and socio-cultural limitations. Findings from this study suggest that improving the compliance of health facilities in districts across Kenya with regard to the implementation of the facility service charter is critical for accountability and community satisfaction with service delivery. To improve the compliance of health facilities, attention needs to be focused on mechanisms that help enforce official guidelines, address capacity gaps, and enhance public awareness of the charters and their use.

  16. 77 FR 28421 - Railroad Safety Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-05-14

    ... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Railroad Administration [Docket No. FRA-2000-7257: Notice No. 70] Railroad Safety Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Announcement of Charter Renewal of the Railroad Safety Advisory...

  17. 75 FR 27053 - Railroad Safety Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-05-13

    ... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Railroad Administration [Docket No. FRA-2000-7257; Notice No. 61] Railroad Safety Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Announcement of Charter Renewal of the Railroad Safety Advisory...

  18. 76 FR 65750 - Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-10-24

    ... NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice (11-105)] Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel; Charter Renewal AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of renewal and amendment of the charter of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. SUMMARY: Pursuant to...

  19. Excellence Creates Itself.

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    Keegan, Lisa Graham

    2001-01-01

    Discusses challenges and benefits of Arizona's public charter-school system enacted by the state legislature in 1994. Includes descriptions of some charter-school experiences. Arizona was the first state to pass legislation allowing public charter schools to operate independently of local school board control. (PKP)

  20. 78 FR 66964 - International Space Station Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-11-07

    ... NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice: (13-128)] International Space Station Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of renewal and amendment of the charter of the International Space Station Advisory Committee...

  1. 78 FR 66964 - International Space Station National Laboratory Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-11-07

    ... NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice: (13-129)] International Space Station National Laboratory Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of renewal of the charter of the International Space Station National...

  2. 16 CFR 16.6 - Charter.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 16 Commercial Practices 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Charter. 16.6 Section 16.6 Commercial Practices FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ORGANIZATION, PROCEDURES AND RULES OF PRACTICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT § 16.6 Charter. (a) No advisory committee established, utilized, reestablished or renewed by the...

  3. 22 CFR 214.14 - Charter revision.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-04-01

    ... 22 Foreign Relations 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Charter revision. 214.14 Section 214.14 Foreign Relations AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE MANAGEMENT Establishment of Advisory...) Charter revision requires clearances by the advisory committee, the A.I.D. Advisory Committee Management...

  4. 14 CFR 380.26 - Discrimination.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Discrimination. 380.26 Section 380.26... REGULATIONS PUBLIC CHARTERS Requirements Applicable to Charter Operators § 380.26 Discrimination. No charter... unjust discrimination or any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. ...

  5. 14 CFR 380.26 - Discrimination.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Discrimination. 380.26 Section 380.26... REGULATIONS PUBLIC CHARTERS Requirements Applicable to Charter Operators § 380.26 Discrimination. No charter... unjust discrimination or any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. ...

  6. 14 CFR 380.26 - Discrimination.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Discrimination. 380.26 Section 380.26... REGULATIONS PUBLIC CHARTERS Requirements Applicable to Charter Operators § 380.26 Discrimination. No charter... unjust discrimination or any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. ...

  7. 14 CFR 380.26 - Discrimination.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Discrimination. 380.26 Section 380.26... REGULATIONS PUBLIC CHARTERS Requirements Applicable to Charter Operators § 380.26 Discrimination. No charter... unjust discrimination or any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. ...

  8. 14 CFR 380.26 - Discrimination.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Discrimination. 380.26 Section 380.26... REGULATIONS PUBLIC CHARTERS Requirements Applicable to Charter Operators § 380.26 Discrimination. No charter... unjust discrimination or any undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvantage in any respect whatsoever. ...

  9. Understanding District-Charter Collaboration Grants. Final Report

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    Tuttle, Christina; McCullough, Moira; Richman, Scott; Booker, Kevin; Burnett, Alyson; Keating, Betsy; Cavanaugh, Michael

    2016-01-01

    In November 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in seven innovative district-charter partnerships with "the potential capacity and commitment to accelerate student college ready rates through deep collaboration and sharing of best practices" (District-Charter Collaboration Grant Request for Proposal [RFP]). These…

  10. Why Mission Matters More for (Some) Charter Principals

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    Foreman, Leesa M.; Maranto, Robert

    2018-01-01

    Reflecting post-bureaucratic organisation theory, education reformers intended charter schools to empower school-level leaders, most typically principals, with autonomy to pursue clear, student-centred missions. Yet little research explores whether charter school principals have more power than traditional public school counterparts. We summarise…

  11. 77 FR 2095 - Charter Renewal for Humanities Panel

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    2012-01-13

    ... NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES Charter Renewal for Humanities Panel AGENCY: The National Endowment for the Humanities. ACTION: Notice of Charter Renewal for Humanities Panel...-463, 86 Stat. 770), as amended, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) gives notice that the...

  12. Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education.

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    Peterson, Paul E., Ed.; Campbell, David E., Ed.

    This book presents 15 papers on charters, vouchers, and public education: (1) "Introduction: A New Direction in Public Education?" (Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell); (2) "Charter Schools: Taking Stock" (Chester E. Finn, Jr, Bruno V. Manno, and Gregg Vanourek); (3) "School Choice in Michigan" (Michael Mintrom…

  13. 78 FR 66964 - NASA Advisory Council; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-11-07

    ... NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice: (13-130)] NASA Advisory Council; Charter Renewal AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of renewal and amendment of the charter of the NASA Advisory Council. SUMMARY: Pursuant to sections 14(b)(1) and 9(c) of...

  14. 76 FR 67482 - NASA Advisory Council; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2011-11-01

    ... NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice (11-108)] NASA Advisory Council; Charter Renewal AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of renewal and amendment of the charter of the NASA Advisory Council. SUMMARY: Pursuant to sections 14(b)(1) and 9(c) of...

  15. Charter Schools: A Viable Public School Choice Option?

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    Geske, Terry G.; And Others

    1997-01-01

    Overviews the charter-school phenomenon and these schools' basic design. Discusses the government's role in education and identifies various school-choice options. Explores overall autonomy via legislative provisions and examines empirical evidence on charter schools' innovative features, teacher and student characteristics, and parental contracts…

  16. A Phenomenological Narrative Study: Elementary Charter School Principals' Managerial Roles

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    Cetinkaya, Ahmet

    2016-01-01

    This study was a phenomenological narrative research investigating the managerial roles of elementary charter school principals. Managerial leadership practices were investigated under three categories personnel management, student management, and finance management. Elementary charter school principals provided positive feedback for having small…

  17. Leveraging Quality Charters

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    Young, Caprice

    2012-01-01

    Charter public schools serve a variety of roles in education reform: innovation labs, havens from failing traditional schools; and competitors for pubic resources. Education leaders have the opportunity to use high quality charter schooling to innovate not only in developing transformative schools but, more importantly, in creating great public…

  18. Forging Inclusive Solutions: Experiential Earth Charter Education

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    Hill, Linda D.

    2010-01-01

    Forging Inclusive Solutions describes the aims, methodology and outcomes of Inclusive Leadership Adventures, an experiential education curriculum for exploring the Earth Charter. Experiential education builds meaningful relationships, skills, awareness and an inclusive community based on the Earth Charter principles. When we meet people where they…

  19. How to Lose Your Charter

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    Wilkens, Christian P.

    2013-01-01

    In this scholarly commentary, the author examines the major reasons U.S. charter schools have closed since 1992. The commentary provides examples of charter school failures in high-frequency areas, such as financial and organizational mismanagement, and academic underperformance; it further identifies two subcategories of academic risk:…

  20. 14 CFR 399.21 - Charter exemptions (except military).

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 14 Aeronautics and Space 4 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Charter exemptions (except military). 399.21 Section 399.21 Aeronautics and Space OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION... Authority § 399.21 Charter exemptions (except military). In deciding applications for exemptions from...

  1. 14 CFR 294.20 - Applying for registration.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS Registration for Exemption § 294.20 Applying for registration. To apply for registration under this part, a Canadian charter air taxi operator... shall be certified by a responsible officer of the applicant Canadian charter air taxi operator...

  2. 14 CFR 294.20 - Applying for registration.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CANADIAN CHARTER AIR TAXI OPERATORS Registration for Exemption § 294.20 Applying for registration. To apply for registration under this part, a Canadian charter air taxi operator... shall be certified by a responsible officer of the applicant Canadian charter air taxi operator...

  3. Autonomy and Flexibility in Charters

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    Paisner, Eric J.

    2011-01-01

    In this article, the author reports on how several locally authorized charter schools generate academic gains through their freedom to significantly alter staff development and school culture. Although many districts authorize public charter schools, the school districts maintain no role in the day-to-day operations. This separation has given…

  4. Somerville Charter School: Management Issues and Recommendations.

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    Massachusetts State Office of the Inspector General, Boston.

    Somerville Charter School was among 24 Massachusetts charter schools included in a study undertaken by the Office of the Inspector General in March 1998. The office identified weaknesses in the contracting practices, procurement procedures, and financial management of some schools, including Somerville. These weaknesses could undermine the…

  5. A Management Review of Commonwealth Charter Schools.

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    Massachusetts State Office of the Inspector General, Boston.

    This report focuses on the business operations of 24 charter schools in Massachusetts. The legislation authorizing the establishment of public charter-school in Massachusetts stipulated that a study of these schools' operations, practices, and activities must be conducted. The information gathered in the review came from the Massachusetts…

  6. 49 CFR 604.8 - Leasing FTA funded equipment and drivers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... vehicles leased, and vehicle identification numbers; and (3) The documentation presented by the registered... charter service that exceeds its available capacity either of the number of vehicles operated by the registered charter provider or the number of accessible vehicles operated by the registered charter provider...

  7. 49 CFR 604.8 - Leasing FTA funded equipment and drivers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... vehicles leased, and vehicle identification numbers; and (3) The documentation presented by the registered... charter service that exceeds its available capacity either of the number of vehicles operated by the registered charter provider or the number of accessible vehicles operated by the registered charter provider...

  8. 49 CFR 604.8 - Leasing FTA funded equipment and drivers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... vehicles leased, and vehicle identification numbers; and (3) The documentation presented by the registered... charter service that exceeds its available capacity either of the number of vehicles operated by the registered charter provider or the number of accessible vehicles operated by the registered charter provider...

  9. 49 CFR 604.8 - Leasing FTA funded equipment and drivers.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... vehicles leased, and vehicle identification numbers; and (3) The documentation presented by the registered... charter service that exceeds its available capacity either of the number of vehicles operated by the registered charter provider or the number of accessible vehicles operated by the registered charter provider...

  10. Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, 2015 Edition

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    National Association of Charter School Authorizers, 2015

    2015-01-01

    Charter school authorizing is a powerful strategy for making excellent public schools and educational opportunities available to all students. Done well, charter authorizing increases student achievement by expanding the supply of quality public schools to satisfy unmet needs--particularly by providing life-changing opportunities for students…

  11. 76 FR 64122 - NASA Advisory Committee; Renewal of NASA's International Space Station Advisory Committee Charter

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    2011-10-17

    ... NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION [Notice (11-095)] NASA Advisory Committee; Renewal of NASA's International Space Station Advisory Committee Charter AGENCY: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). ACTION: Notice of renewal and amendment of the Charter of the International...

  12. The Charter School Catch-22

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    Hill, Paul T.; Lake, Robin J.

    2010-01-01

    When charter schools first emerged nearly two decades ago, critics claimed they would promote segregation by serving privileged white students whose families take advantage of choice. But state laws, philanthropists, and charter school founders targeted these new schools to serve disadvantaged students in urban districts. Critics then tried to…

  13. 78 FR 13156 - Petition for Waiver of Compliance

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    2013-02-26

    ... for this charter train movement that includes the safety of train operations, equipment, passenger... request this exception for a one-time, one-day, roundtrip, chartered passenger train movement on June 23, 2013, over the Brazos Drawbridge. The charter train will operate from Sacramento to the Sears Point...

  14. A Status Report on Charter Schools in New Mexico.

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    Casey, Jean; Andreson, Kathleen; Yelverton, Barbara; Wedeen, Linda

    2002-01-01

    Discusses the status of charter schools in New Mexico, including curriculum and instruction, student achievement, effects of school size, school enrollment, facilities, financial management, compliance with rules and regulations, governance, parent and community involvement, satisfaction with charter schools, and impact on local school districts.…

  15. Review of "Charter School Funding: Inequity Expands"

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    Baker, Bruce D.

    2014-01-01

    The University of Arkansas Center for Education Reform's report on charter school funding inequities proclaims large and growing inequities between school district and charter school revenues, even after accounting for differences in student needs. But the report displays complete lack of understanding of intergovernmental fiscal relationships,…

  16. Charter School Spending and Saving in California

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    Reed, Sherrie; Rose, Heather

    2015-01-01

    Examining resource allocation practices, including savings, of charter schools is critical to understanding their financial viability and sustainability. Using 9 years of finance data from California, we find charter schools spend less on instruction and pupil support services than traditional public schools. The lower spending on instruction and…

  17. 12 CFR 239.14 - Charter amendments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Charter amendments. 239.14 Section 239.14 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Mutual Holding Companies § 239.14 Charter amendments. (a...

  18. 12 CFR 239.14 - Charter amendments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Charter amendments. 239.14 Section 239.14 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Mutual Holding Companies § 239.14 Charter amendments. (a...

  19. 12 CFR 239.14 - Charter amendments.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 4 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Charter amendments. 239.14 Section 239.14 Banks and Banking FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM (CONTINUED) MUTUAL HOLDING COMPANIES (REGULATION MM) Mutual Holding Companies § 239.14 Charter amendments. (a...

  20. 75 FR 66797 - National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), Charter Renewal

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    2010-10-29

    ... DEPARTMENT OF LABOR Occupational Safety and Health Administration [Docket No. OSHA-2010-0012] National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH), Charter Renewal AGENCY: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Labor. ACTION: Notice of renewal of the NACOSH charter...

  1. 12 CFR 34.24 - Nonfederally chartered commercial banks.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Nonfederally chartered commercial banks. 34.24 Section 34.24 Banks and Banking COMPTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY REAL ESTATE LENDING AND APPRAISALS Adjustable-Rate Mortgages § 34.24 Nonfederally chartered commercial banks. Pursuant...

  2. State Policy Regimes and Charter School Performance

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    Pelz, Mikael L.

    2015-01-01

    The policy diffusion framework is critical to understanding the spread of policy innovations such as charter schools in the United States. This framework, however, is less instructive in explaining the state-by-state configuration of these policies. What explains the wide variation in charter school policy among states? This study addresses this…

  3. SABIS International Charter School: Management Issues and Recommendations.

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    Massachusetts State Office of the Inspector General, Boston.

    SABIS International Charter School was among 24 Commonwealth charter schools included in a study undertaken by the Office of the Inspector General in March 1998. The Office identified weaknesses in the contracting practices, procurement procedures, and financial management. Findings include: (1) the Board of Trustees did not employ sound business…

  4. Charter School Path Paved with Choice, Compromise, Common Sense

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    Junge, Ember Reichgott

    2014-01-01

    A state legislator who played a key role in enacting the nation's first charter school law in Minnesota tells the story of shaping the ideas and the bill. She now looks for ways that charter schools can coexist with traditional public schools to deliver a better education for all children.

  5. Restoring Shanker's Vision for Charter Schools

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    Kahlenberg, Richard D.; Potter, Halley

    2015-01-01

    In 1988, education reformer and American Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker proposed a new kind of public school--"charter schools"--which would allow teachers to experiment with innovative approaches to educating students. Publicly funded but independently managed, these schools would be given a charter to try their fresh…

  6. Charter Schooling and Democratic Justice

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    Abowitz, Kathleen Knight; Karaba, Robert

    2010-01-01

    As the mixed achievements of charter schools come under more intense political inspection, the conceptual underpinnings of current charter school reform remain largely unexamined. This article focuses on one moral-political concept centrally related to school reform and policy, the concept of justice. Using examples from the state of Ohio, the…

  7. Teacher Accountability at High Performing Charter Schools

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    Aguirre, Moises G.

    2016-01-01

    This study will examine the teacher accountability and evaluation policies and practices at three high performing charter schools located in San Diego County, California. Charter schools are exempted from many laws, rules, and regulations that apply to traditional school systems. By examining the teacher accountability systems at high performing…

  8. California Charter Oversight: Key Elements and Actual Costs. CRB Briefly Stated

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    Blanton, Rebecca E.

    2012-01-01

    The Legislature mandated the California Research Bureau (CRB) explore known best practices for charter school authorizers and survey California authorizers about their practices and costs. Additionally, the Legislature mandated CRB provide an analysis of current reimbursement for charter school oversight and include suggestions for improving…

  9. Smarter Charters

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    Kahlenberg, Richard D.; Potter, Halley

    2015-01-01

    Charter schools--what was their original promise? They would enroll diverse groups of students. They would give teachers the room and power to innovate. They would be educational laboratories that would find new ways to reach students, and they would share those lessons with other public schools. But charter schools haven't lived up to their…

  10. Charter Schools and the Teacher Job Search

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    Cannata, Marisa

    2011-01-01

    This article examines the position of charter schools in prospective elementary teachers' job search decisions. Using a labor market segmentation framework, it explores teacher applicants' decisions to apply to charter schools. The data come from a mixed-methods longitudinal study of prospective teachers looking for their first job. This article…

  11. Charter Schools and the Teacher Job Search. Research Brief

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    Cannata, Marisa

    2010-01-01

    Charter schools have been the subject of much education policy research, particularly related to student achievement, governance, funding, and student composition. Although high-quality teachers are essential for the educational success of any school, much less research exists on charter schools' ability to recruit talented teachers. This study…

  12. 76 FR 70445 - Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

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    2011-11-14

    ... Chartered Science Advisory Board AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Chartered SAB... the EPA Science Advisory Board (1400R), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue...

  13. Authorizer Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future

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    Boast, Lyria; Ellison, Shonaka; Hassel, Bryan C.; Conlan, Sean; Rausch, M. Karega

    2016-01-01

    As charter school authorizers and states have increased performance expectations and grown less hesitant to close failing schools, "authorizer shopping" has emerged as a growing threat to overall charter school quality. Authorizer shopping happens when a charter school chooses or changes its authorizer specifically to avoid…

  14. Charter School Funding: Inequity in the City

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    Wolf, Patrick J.; Maloney, Larry D.; May, Jay F.; DeAngelis, Corey A.

    2017-01-01

    Public charter schools increasingly are part of both the national conversation about education policy and the local urban scene in America. Previous studies of public charter schools have examined their achievement effects focused on both the state and metropolitan levels, and funding disparities focused on the state levels. This is the first…

  15. 14 CFR 212.5 - Operation of affinity (pro rata) charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CHARTER RULES FOR U.S. AND FOREIGN DIRECT AIR CARRIERS § 212.5... foreign air carrier must meet the following criteria: (a) The aircraft must be chartered by an... of transportation services, for the purpose of providing air transportation to its members and their...

  16. 14 CFR 212.5 - Operation of affinity (pro rata) charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS CHARTER RULES FOR U.S. AND FOREIGN DIRECT AIR CARRIERS § 212.5... foreign air carrier must meet the following criteria: (a) The aircraft must be chartered by an... of transportation services, for the purpose of providing air transportation to its members and their...

  17. State of Charter Authorizing: 2015 State of Charter Authorizing Report

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    National Association of Charter School Authorizers, 2016

    2016-01-01

    Since 2008, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) has annually surveyed our nation's authorizers. Survey findings provide an annual measuring stick for those in the field of authorizing, and they help education decision makers, foundations, legislators, and researchers inform their understanding of the field of charter…

  18. 75 FR 47523 - Assembly of the Administrative Conference; Filing of Advisory Committee Charter

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    2010-08-06

    ... Assembly of the Administrative Conference; Filing of Advisory Committee Charter AGENCY: Administrative... Conference of the United States will file an advisory committee charter for the Assembly of the... United States, 202- 326-2305. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Assembly is to adopt...

  19. 12 CFR 552.3 - Charters for Federal stock associations.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 12 Banks and Banking 5 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Charters for Federal stock associations. 552.3 Section 552.3 Banks and Banking OFFICE OF THRIFT SUPERVISION, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY FEDERAL STOCK ASSOCIATIONS-INCORPORATION, ORGANIZATION, AND CONVERSION § 552.3 Charters for Federal stock associations. The...

  20. Charter School Location

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    Glomm, G.; Harris, D.; Lo, T.F.

    2005-01-01

    Charter schools represent one part of the larger movement toward parental choice in education, which is intended to improve school efficiency and innovation. We hypothesize that the number of charter schools entering in a local education market depends on how closely the distribution of education programs in public and private schools matches the…

  1. 78 FR 27964 - Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-05-13

    ... Chartered Science Advisory Board AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Chartered Science Advisory Board Panel to discuss three planned actions identified in the agency's regulatory agenda...

  2. 78 FR 36546 - Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Chartered Science Advisory Board

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2013-06-18

    ... Chartered Science Advisory Board AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice. SUMMARY: The EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Staff Office announces a public teleconference of the Chartered Science Advisory Board Panel to receive agency briefings on science topics and complete Board discussions...

  3. Pennsylvania Cyber School Funding: Follow the Money

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    Carr-Chellman, Alison A.; Marsh, Rose M.

    2009-01-01

    Cyber charter schools are public charter schools which are entirely online and typically serve all grades from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Pennsylvania implemented widespread charter school legislation as early as 1997. This has offered a great number of Pennsylvanians options in their public schooling. One of these options has been…

  4. 75 FR 43492 - Federal Advisory Committee; National Security Education Board; Charter Renewal

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    2010-07-26

    ... Education Board; Charter Renewal AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory... Department of Defense gives notice that it is renewing the charter for the National Security Education Board... students desiring scholarships or fellowships, and institutions of higher education desiring grants under...

  5. 77 FR 59137 - Chartering and Field of Membership Manual for Federal Credit Unions

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    2012-09-26

    ... enhance an FCU's economic potential. Unfortunately, when included in the rural district for chartering... population density. Accordingly, a higher potential population is often necessary to ensure the economic viability of many rural district charters. Since first defining the term rural district in 2010, NCUA has...

  6. 49 CFR 604.16 - Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-10-01

    ... registration Web site. 604.16 Section 604.16 Transportation Other Regulations Relating to Transportation... Qualified Human Service Organizations and Duties for Recipients With Respect to Charter Registration Web site § 604.16 Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site. Each recipient shall...

  7. 29 CFR 1430.4 - Filing of advisory committee charter.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-07-01

    ... 29 Labor 4 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Filing of advisory committee charter. 1430.4 Section 1430.4 Labor Regulations Relating to Labor (Continued) FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE FEDERAL MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION SERVICE ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 1430.4 Filing of advisory committee charter. (a...

  8. Diverse Charter Schools

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    Russo, Alexander

    2013-01-01

    In February 2009, newly elected President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited Capital City Public Charter School in northwest Washington, D.C. This was the First Family's first official public-school visit, just a few short weeks after President Obama was sworn into office. Obama's enthusiastic support for charter schools was one of…

  9. Effective Uses of CSP Grant Funds in Tennessee Charter Schools

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    Williams, Andrew; Webb, Leigh

    2013-01-01

    The topic of educational spending and its connection to student achievement was long-debated before charter schools entered the conversation. With the rise in government spending on education, particularly charter school funding, the financial debate has strengthened and evoked much controversy. Though the Tennessee Department of Education (TNDOE)…

  10. 14 CFR 372.24 - Surety bond, depository agreement, escrow agreement.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... (2) which is listed in Best's Insurance Reports (fire and casualty) with a general policyholders... surety to any charter participant shall not exceed the charter operator's applicable tariff fare. Such... not exceed the charter operator's applicable tariff fare; and (ii) Enter into an agreement with a bank...

  11. 50 CFR 648.107 - Conservation equivalent measures for the summer flounder party/charter and recreational fishery.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... summer flounder party/charter and recreational fishery. 648.107 Section 648.107 Wildlife and Fisheries... COMMERCE FISHERIES OF THE NORTHEASTERN UNITED STATES Management Measures for the Summer Flounder Fisheries § 648.107 Conservation equivalent measures for the summer flounder party/charter and recreational...

  12. District-Charter Collaboration Grant Implementation: Findings from Teacher and Principal Surveys. Summary Brief

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    Richman, Scott; Burnett, Alyson; Dillon, Erin; Goble, Lisbeth; McCullough, Moira; Tuttle, Christina Clark

    2016-01-01

    In November 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in seven innovative district-charter partnerships with "the potential capacity and commitment to accelerate student college ready rates through deep collaboration and sharing of best practices" (District-Charter Collaboration Grant Request for Proposal). These…

  13. District-Charter Collaboration Grant Implementation: Final Findings from Interviews and Site Visits. Interim Report

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    McCullough, Moira; Keating, Betsy; Heinkel, Luke

    2016-01-01

    In November 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation invested in seven innovative district-charter partnerships with "the potential capacity and commitment to accelerate student college ready rates through deep collaboration and sharing of best practices" (District-Charter Collaboration Grant Request for Proposal). These…

  14. Charter Schools, Market Capitalism, and Obama's Neo-Liberal Agenda

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    Mora, Richard; Christianakis, Mary

    2011-01-01

    This paper analyzes President Obama's education policies as they relate to charter schools. The authors first show how his policies continue previous neoconservative and neoliberal educational initiatives that marketize schooling. Arne Duncan's role in charter schools, both in his capacity as former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, and in his…

  15. The National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness. Report on Interim Findings

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    Lake, Robin; Dusseault, Brianna; Bowen, Melissa; Demeritt, Allison; Hill, Paul

    2010-01-01

    The National Study of CMO (charter management organizations) Effectiveness is a national, longitudinal research effort designed to measure how nonprofit charter school management organizations (CMOs) affect student achievement, and to examine the internal structures, practices, and policy contexts that may influence these outcomes. The study began…

  16. 75 FR 12328 - Application of Charter Air Transport, Inc. for Commuter Authority

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    2010-03-15

    ... DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Office of the Secretary Application of Charter Air Transport, Inc. for Commuter Authority AGENCY: Department of Transportation. ACTION: Notice of Order to Show Cause... interested persons to show cause why it should not issue an order finding Charter Air Transport, Inc., fit...

  17. Charter Schools and the Risk of Increased Segregation

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    Rotberg, Iris C.

    2014-01-01

    This article examines a wide array of research on the link between school choice programs and student segregation and draws implications for the Obama Administration's policy promoting the national expansion of charter schools. The research demonstrates how the proliferation of charter schools risks increasing current levels of segregation…

  18. Fiscal Impacts of Charter Schools: Lessons from New York

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    Bifulco, Robert; Reback, Randall

    2014-01-01

    This brief argues that charter school programs can have direct fiscal impacts on school districts for two reasons. First, operating two systems of public schools under separate governance arrangements can create excess costs. Second, charter school financing policies can distribute resources to or away from districts. Using the city school…

  19. The Myth about the Special Education Gap

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    Winters, Marcus A.

    2015-01-01

    As public schools, charter schools are legally required to educate all students regardless of the difficulties they bring with them into the classroom. Nonetheless, many are concerned that the charter sector fails to educate all comers. Charter schools are often criticized for not enrolling similar proportions of students with disabilities as are…

  20. Principal Turnover: Upheaval and Uncertainty in Charter Schools?

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    Ni, Yongmei; Sun, Min; Rorrer, Andrea

    2015-01-01

    Purpose: Informed by literature on labor market and school choice, this study aims to examine the dynamics of principal career movements in charter schools by comparing principal turnover rates and patterns between charter schools and traditional public schools. Research Methods/Approach: This study uses longitudinal data on Utah principals and…

  1. How Community-Based Organizations Can Start Charter Schools.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Martinelli, Frank

    A growing number of charter schools are being designed, launched, and operated by community-based nonprofit organizations (CBOs). This resource guide is intended to target a priority technical assistance need: creating and sustaining a healthy relationship between a new charter school and a founding community organization, leading to the creation…

  2. Cooperative Charter Schools: New Enterprises in Instructional Delivery.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hanson, Katherine L.; Hentschke, Guilbert C.

    A wide variety of charter schools has emerged since the first charter was granted in 1991. Six distinct models include schools managed by grassroots organizations, schools focused on special student populations, schools centered around distance learning or home learning, business-managed schools, schools structured as teacher cooperatives, and…

  3. 77 FR 36574 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed collection, comments requested: Leased/Charter...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-06-19

    ... collection, comments requested: Leased/Charter Flight Personnel Expedited Clearance Request ACTION: 30-day... collection: New collection. 2. The title of the form/collection: Leased/Charter Flight Personnel Expedited.... This form is to be completed by people applying to become contract flight crew members. It is required...

  4. 77 FR 22346 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection; Comments Requested: Leased/Charter...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-04-13

    ... Collection; Comments Requested: Leased/Charter Flight Personnel Expedited Clearance Request ACTION: 60-day.../Collection: Leased/Charter Flight Personnel Expedited Clearance Request. (3) Agency form number, if any, and... become contract flight crew members. It is required so that USMS can perform an expedited background...

  5. Charter Schools: Are They Really the Answer?

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    Grant, Marquis Carter

    2010-01-01

    Charter schools have become a leading alternative to traditional public education, where children of color have historically experienced low academic performance and dismal results on state-mandated testing. Whether these institutions are, in fact, the answer to what ails education is a matter of debate. Those who support charter schools point to…

  6. The U.S. Charter School Movement and Ethnic Segregation.

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    Cobb, Casey D.; Glass, Gene V.; Crockett, Carol

    Among the major concerns surrounding school-choice programs is their potential to stratify students along the dimensions of race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic class. The latest among four U.S. Department of Education national evaluations of charter schools reports no evidence that charter schools are predominantly white or that they segregate…

  7. 10 CFR 7.8 - Charter filing requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Charter filing requirements. 7.8 Section 7.8 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.8 Charter filing requirements. No advisory committee... Works of the United States Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of...

  8. 10 CFR 7.8 - Charter filing requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Charter filing requirements. 7.8 Section 7.8 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.8 Charter filing requirements. No advisory committee... Works of the United States Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of...

  9. 10 CFR 7.8 - Charter filing requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Charter filing requirements. 7.8 Section 7.8 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.8 Charter filing requirements. No advisory committee... Works of the United States Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of...

  10. Teacher Classroom Management Ratings at Concept Charter Schools

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    Senlik, Yasar

    2013-01-01

    The purpose of this study is to identify the factors that impact the classroom management rating score of teachers at Concept Schools managed charter schools. Concept Schools, a non-profit management and consulting organization that manages charter schools in the Midwest, has adapted Charlotte Danielson's rubrics for "Enhancing Professional…

  11. Virtual Charter Schools: Realities and Unknowns

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    Torre, Daniela

    2013-01-01

    Virtual charter schools have emerged over the last decade as an increasingly popular alternative to traditional public schooling. Unlike their face-to-face counterparts, virtual charter schools educate students through blended or entirely online curricula. They present a host of new policy issues that should be scrutinized in order to ensure that…

  12. Charter Schools: Hope or Hype?

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    Buckley, Jack; Schneider, Mark

    2009-01-01

    Over the past several years, privately run, publicly funded charter schools have been sold to the American public as an education alternative promising better student achievement, greater parent satisfaction, and more vibrant school communities. But are charter schools delivering on their promise? Or are they just hype as critics contend, a costly…

  13. Choosing Charters: Better Schools or More Segregation?

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    Rotberg, Iris C., Ed.; Glazer, Joshua L., Ed.

    2018-01-01

    Do charter schools strengthen students' educational experience? What are their social costs? This volume brings together a group of premier researchers to address questions about the purposes of charter schools and the role of public policy in shaping the educational agenda. Chapter authors explore topics seldom encountered in the current charter…

  14. 77 FR 13304 - Application for New Awards; Charter Schools Program (CSP); Grants for Replication and Expansion...

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2012-03-06

    ... for each school managed by the applicant, including compliance issues in the areas of student safety... DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Application for New Awards; Charter Schools Program (CSP); Grants for Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools AGENCY: Office of Innovation and Improvement...

  15. Charter Schools: A Critical Appraisal

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    Henry, Samuel D.

    2017-01-01

    The record of charter schools has been a mixed bag. They have become racialized, radicalized into business-generation schemes, scorned by teachers unions, and in some cases rammed down the throats of poorer communities. But charter schools sometimes have spotlighted best practice in urban education. In this article, Samuel D. Henry, a former…

  16. Catholic Closures Linked to Growth of City Charters

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    Cech, Scott J.

    2008-01-01

    This article reports that charter schools, which the Bush administration has strongly supported, may have effectively helped undermine Catholic schools--the nation's largest provider of faith-based education. Whether the proliferation of charter schools in urban areas is fueling the demise of inner-city Roman Catholic schools is not a new…

  17. 49 CFR 604.13 - Registration of private charter operators.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... provider: (1) Company name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and facsimile number; (2) Federal and, if available, state motor carrier identifying number; (3) The geographic service areas of public... intends to provide charter service; (4) The number of buses or vans the private charter operator owns; (5...

  18. 49 CFR 604.13 - Registration of private charter operators.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... provider: (1) Company name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and facsimile number; (2) Federal and, if available, state motor carrier identifying number; (3) The geographic service areas of public... intends to provide charter service; (4) The number of buses or vans the private charter operator owns; (5...

  19. 49 CFR 604.13 - Registration of private charter operators.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... provider: (1) Company name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and facsimile number; (2) Federal and, if available, state motor carrier identifying number; (3) The geographic service areas of public... intends to provide charter service; (4) The number of buses or vans the private charter operator owns; (5...

  20. 49 CFR 604.13 - Registration of private charter operators.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... provider: (1) Company name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and facsimile number; (2) Federal and, if available, state motor carrier identifying number; (3) The geographic service areas of public... intends to provide charter service; (4) The number of buses or vans the private charter operator owns; (5...

  1. 12 CFR 611.1010 - Bank charter amendment procedures.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... change that is properly the subject of a bank charter; (b) Upon approval of an appropriate resolution by the bank board, the certified resolution, together with supporting documentation, shall be submitted... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Bank charter amendment procedures. 611.1010...

  2. Peace Education, ESD and the Earth Charter: Interconnections and Synergies

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    Toh, Swee-Hin; Cawagas, Virginia Floresca

    2010-01-01

    This article provides a review of how the values and principles of the Earth Charter initiative relate to two specific innovative movements of educational transformation, namely peace education and education for sustainable development (ESD). The interconnections and synergies between these movements and the Earth Charter are highlighted.…

  3. 75 FR 22752 - Federal Advisory Committee; Department of Defense Wage Committee; Charter Renewal

    Federal Register 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

    2010-04-30

    ... Wage Committee; Charter Renewal AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). ACTION: Renewal of Federal... charter for the Department of Defense Wage Committee (hereafter referred to as the Committee). FOR FURTHER... wage surveys and the establishment of wage schedules for all appropriated fund and non- appropriated...

  4. Charter School Laws: Ranking Scorecard.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Center for Education Reform, Washington, DC.

    This is the fifth report prepared by the Center for Education Reform (CER) evaluating the capacity and flexibility of state laws promoting charter schools. Three primary factors were evaluated in preparing charter-school quality rankings by state. The center finds that the establishment of multiple sponsoring authorities, in addition to local…

  5. 49 CFR 604.16 - Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

    2013-10-01

    ... registration Web site. 604.16 Section 604.16 Transportation Other Regulations Relating to Transportation... Qualified Human Service Organizations and Duties for Recipients With Respect to Charter Registration Web site § 604.16 Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site. Each recipient shall...

  6. 49 CFR 604.16 - Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-10-01

    ... registration Web site. 604.16 Section 604.16 Transportation Other Regulations Relating to Transportation... Qualified Human Service Organizations and Duties for Recipients With Respect to Charter Registration Web site § 604.16 Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site. Each recipient shall...

  7. 49 CFR 604.16 - Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... registration Web site. 604.16 Section 604.16 Transportation Other Regulations Relating to Transportation... Qualified Human Service Organizations and Duties for Recipients With Respect to Charter Registration Web site § 604.16 Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site. Each recipient shall...

  8. 49 CFR 604.16 - Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... registration Web site. 604.16 Section 604.16 Transportation Other Regulations Relating to Transportation... Qualified Human Service Organizations and Duties for Recipients With Respect to Charter Registration Web site § 604.16 Duties for recipients with respect to charter registration Web site. Each recipient shall...

  9. 10 CFR 7.8 - Charter filing requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Charter filing requirements. 7.8 Section 7.8 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.8 Charter filing requirements. No advisory committee... Works of the United States Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of...

  10. 10 CFR 7.8 - Charter filing requirements.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... 10 Energy 1 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Charter filing requirements. 7.8 Section 7.8 Energy NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ADVISORY COMMITTEES § 7.8 Charter filing requirements. No advisory committee... Works of the United States Senate and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the United States House of...

  11. Educational Charter Schools: A Civil Rights Mirage?

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    Frankenberg, Erica

    2011-01-01

    The idea of charter schools arose as a means to allow for innovation by creating schools that were free from traditional regulations, but were held accountable for their performance. More recently, however, charter school advocates have suggested that increasing school choice options will create competition that improves the quality of education…

  12. 14 CFR 298.38 - Financial security arrangements for operating Public Charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS EXEMPTIONS FOR AIR TAXI AND COMMUTER... security arrangements for operating Public Charters. When an air taxi operator or commuter air carrier performs a Public Charter under part 380 of this chapter, either: (a) The air taxi operator or commuter air...

  13. 14 CFR 298.38 - Financial security arrangements for operating Public Charters.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

    2011-01-01

    ... OF TRANSPORTATION (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS) ECONOMIC REGULATIONS EXEMPTIONS FOR AIR TAXI AND COMMUTER... security arrangements for operating Public Charters. When an air taxi operator or commuter air carrier performs a Public Charter under part 380 of this chapter, either: (a) The air taxi operator or commuter air...

  14. Michigan's Chartering Strategy

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Goenner, James N.

    2012-01-01

    Michigan's former governor, John Engler, was naturally attracted to charter schools. He had seen for too long how school districts treated students as their property and the state as an endless funding source, and he wanted that to change. Engler saw the chartering strategy as a politically viable means for gaining leverage over school districts…

  15. Academic Optimism, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors, and Student Achievement at Charter Schools

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    Guvercin, Mustafa

    2013-01-01

    The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship among academic optimism, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors (OCBs), and student achievement in college preparatory charter schools. A purposeful sample of elementary school teachers from college preparatory charter schools (N = 226) in southeast Texas was solicited to complete the…

  16. Follow the money: There's no business like the ed. business...

    PubMed

    Levine, Murray; Levine, Adeline G

    2014-07-01

    The debate about charter schools and public schools has been conducted on an ideological level. However, the ideological argument obscures the ongoing transfer of public funds to private use, the creation of business and investment opportunities, and the effects of the private enterprise model on education. In the current two-part article, the authors discuss charter schools and finances. Part 1 concerns charter schools and management organizations. Part 2 focuses on charter schools as business investments. Throughout, the authors link the information to effects on education.

  17. International Charter "Space and Major Disasters": Typical Examples of Disaster Management Including Asian Tsunami

    NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

    Cubero-Castan, Eliane; Bequignon, Jerome; Mahmood, Ahmed; Lauritson, Levin; Soma, P.; Platzeck, Gabriel; Chu, Ishida

    2005-03-01

    The International Charter 'Space and Major Disaster', now entering its 5th year of operation, has been activated nearly 80 times to provide space-based data and information in response to natural disasters. The disasters ranged from volcanic eruption in Columbia, floods in Europe, Argentina, Sudan to earthquakes in Iran, from landslides in Philippines to the tragic tsunami in Asia, all resulting in major loss of life and property. The Charter provided imagery and the related information were found to be useful in disaster relief and assessment. Since July 1st 2003, a framework cooperation agreement has been allowing United Nations organizations involved in disaster response to request activation of the Charter.The purpose of the Charter is to provide assistance in situations of emergencies caused by natural and technological disasters by pooling together the space and associated ground resources of the Charter participants, which are currently the European (ESA), French (CNES), Canadian (CSA), Indian (ISRO), American (NOAA), Argentinean (CONAE) and Japanese (JAXA) space organizations.This paper will point out some of the best cases of Charter activation for different disasters leading to change detection imagery and damage assessment products which could be used for disaster reduction in close co-ordination with the end users after the crisis period.

  18. The International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare: an interprofessional global collaboration to enhance values and communication in healthcare.

    PubMed

    Rider, Elizabeth A; Kurtz, Suzanne; Slade, Diana; Longmaid, H Esterbrook; Ho, Ming-Jung; Pun, Jack Kwok-hung; Eggins, Suzanne; Branch, William T

    2014-09-01

    The human dimensions of healthcare--core values and skilled communication necessary for every healthcare interaction--are fundamental to compassionate, ethical, and safe relationship-centered care. The objectives of this paper are to: describe the development of the International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare which delineates core values, articulate the role of skilled communication in enacting these values, and provide examples showing translation of the Charter's values into action. We describe development of the Charter using combined qualitative research methods and the international, interprofessional collaboration of institutions and individuals worldwide. We identified five fundamental categories of human values for every healthcare interaction--Compassion, Respect for Persons, Commitment to Integrity and Ethical Practice, Commitment to Excellence, and Justice in Healthcare--and delineated subvalues within each category. We have disseminated the Charter internationally and incorporated it into education/training. Diverse healthcare partners have joined in this work. We chronicle the development and dissemination of the International Charter for Human Values in Healthcare, the role of skilled communication in demonstrating values, and provide examples of educational and clinical programs integrating these values. The Charter identifies and promotes core values clinicians and educators can demonstrate through skilled communication and use to advance humanistic educational programs and practice. Copyright © 2014. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.

  19. An Investigation of Charter School Leadership Skills and Qualities

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Garza, Yessica Marleen

    2010-01-01

    Charter school leaders have to overcome many obstacles during the development stages and the operations of the schools. The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological research study was to identify the leadership qualities and skills needed to operate a charter school. The participants volunteered to participate in this study were selected from…

  20. Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Gross, Betheny

    2011-01-01

    As the charter movement matures and plays a growing role in education reform, educators need to know about the organizational dynamics autonomy creates, the people who end up working in autonomous schools, and the academic programs they choose to employ. That information is critical to helping the charter school sector grow and mature effectively,…

  1. The Effects of Charter School Competition on School District Resource Allocation

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Arsen, David; Ni, Yongmei

    2012-01-01

    Purpose: This article examines two questions: (a) How does resource allocation change in school districts experiencing sustained charter school competition? (b) Among districts exposed to charter competition, are there differences in the resource allocation adjustments between those that do and do not succeed in stemming further enrollment loss to…

  2. The "Earth Charter": An Ethical Framework for a Feasible Utopia

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Contini, Valerio; Garcia Pascual, Enrique

    2010-01-01

    This research objective is to highlight an innovative, holistic, inclusive, integrated approach to a sustainable future promoted by the "Earth Charter" and describe the structure of its ethical framework. The main conclusion of the research is that the ethical framework of the "Earth Charter" is based on a limited number of…

  3. Navigating the Closure Process. Authorizing Matters. Issue Brief

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Shaw, Matthew

    2011-01-01

    Charter school closure, though sometimes challenging and emotionally charged, is an essential aspect of the charter school movement. The purpose of this Issue Brief is to provide a practice-oriented resource for authorizers and other charter school stakeholders to navigate the closure process after the decision to close a school has been made. In…

  4. High Expense: Disability Severity and Charter School Attendance in Arizona

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Garcy, Anthony M.

    2011-01-01

    Much of the literature related to the skimming or cropping of students by charter schools has ignored special education students. This article examines the relationship between the severity of student disabilities and their likelihood of having attended an Arizona charter school in the 2002-2003 school year. After adjusting for student traits,…

  5. The Charter School Experiment: Expectations, Evidence, and Implications

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    Lubienski, Christopher A., Ed.; Weitzel, Peter C., Ed.

    2010-01-01

    When charter schools first arrived on the American educational scene, few observers suspected that within two decades thousands of these schools would be established, serving almost a million and a half children across forty states. The widespread popularity of these schools, and of the charter movement itself, speaks to the unique and chronic…

  6. The Short but Very Curious Legal History of Michigan's Charter Schools.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Furst, Lyndon G.

    1996-01-01

    During its 1993 session, the Michigan legislature enacted two statutes for the organization and operation of public school academies, Michigan's name for charter schools. A circuit court judge declared the charter schools were unconstitutional. In response, the legislature amended its original enactment. Traces the short but curious history of…

  7. Preparing for Growth: Human Capital Innovations in Charter Public Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Chadwick, Christi; Kowal, Julie

    2011-01-01

    Charter schools and successful charter management organizations that run them have grown significantly over the past decade but they must dramatically increase their scale in order to meet the demand for high-quality public school options for America's children. The limited supply of effective leaders and teachers is one of the key barriers…

  8. Bridging the District-Charter Divide to Help More Students Succeed

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Lake, Robin; Yatsko, Sarah; Gill, Sean; Opalka, Alice

    2017-01-01

    In cities where public charter schools serve a large share of students, the costs of ongoing sector divisions and hostility across district and charter lines fall squarely on students and families. Exercising choice and accessing good schools in "high-choice cities" can be difficult for many families, especially some of the most…

  9. The Influence of News Framing on Support for Charter School Reform

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Feuerstein, Abe

    2015-01-01

    This study examined the influence of media framing on attitudes toward charter school reform. Participants in an Internet-based experiment were presented, at random, with one of three manipulated news articles framing charter school reform as (a) supportive of values such as freedom, choice, and innovation; (b) conflicting with values such as…

  10. The Achievement Impacts of Arkansas Open-Enrollment Charter Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Mills, Jonathan N.

    2013-01-01

    This article examines the impacts of Arkansas charter schools on the academic achievement of participating students. Our findings are that charter schools have small but statistically significant, negative impacts on student achievements for both math and literacy. Such negative effects, however, tend to decline with the number of years of charter…

  11. The Uneven Performance of Arizona's Charter Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Chingos, Matthew M.; West, Martin R.

    2015-01-01

    Arizona enrolls a larger share of its students in charter schools than any other state in the country, but no comprehensive examination exists of the impact of those schools on student achievement. Using student-level data covering all Arizona students from 2006 to 2012, we find that the performance of charter schools in Arizona in improving…

  12. Charters, K-12 Aid Roiling Wash. State

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Ujifusa, Andrew

    2012-01-01

    A tight race for governor, the heavy burden of rebuilding a school funding system recently declared unconstitutional, and a fourth ballot measure in two decades on charter schools has placed Washington state on an intense--and unpredictable--road for education this year. Washington is one of nine states that do not allow charter schools, and the…

  13. Charter School Facilities: A Resource Guide on Development and Financing.

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Jakubowski, Lara

    This manual provides information to help charter schools navigate the facility development process, including worksheets that can be customized to suit a particular school's needs. Sections cover how facility planning fits into business planning for charter schools, review a process for assessing a school's facility needs, and summarize how to…

  14. A Cost Estimation Tool for Charter Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Hayes, Cheryl D.; Keller, Eric

    2009-01-01

    To align their financing strategies and fundraising efforts with their fiscal needs, charter school leaders need to know how much funding they need and what that funding will support. This cost estimation tool offers a simple set of worksheets to help start-up charter school operators identify and estimate the range of costs and timing of…

  15. 3 CFR 8372 - Proclamation 8372 of May 4, 2009. National Charter Schools Week, 2009

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

    2010-01-01

    ... women stay on the path to graduation and a life-long commitment to learning. Many successful public... or community organizations, our Nation’s public charter schools enjoy broad leeway to innovate. The... Week. I commend our Nation’s successful public charter schools, teachers, and administrators, and I...

  16. Charter Schools and the Teacher Job Search in Michigan

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Cannata, Marisa

    2010-01-01

    This paper examines the position of charter schools in prospective elementary teachers' job search decisions. Using a labor market segmentation framework, it explores teacher applicants' decisions to apply to charter schools. The data come from a mixed-methods longitudinal study of prospective teachers looking for their first job. This paper finds…

  17. Sexuality and HIV Education in Charter Schools: An Exploratory Study with Principals in San Diego County, California

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Walsh-Buhi, Eric R.; Dao, Brandon; Salgin, Linda; Marshall, James; Miller, Rachel; Fisher, Doug; Walsh-Buhi, Margaret

    2017-01-01

    Background: Schools can address critical sexual and reproductive health (SRH) issues among youth. However, little is known about SRH education being implemented in charter schools. Thus, our purpose was to explore implementation of SRH education in charter schools. Methods: Using purposive sampling, semistructured telephone interviews were…

  18. To Have and to Have Not: The Socioeconomics of Charter Schools

    ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

    Bancroft, Kim

    2009-01-01

    This year-long ethnographic study analyzed three California charter middle schools: one served mostly low-income, urban African American students; the second served students from working class Latino families; and the third served a middle class, predominantly White suburb. The study illustrates how socioeconomic context of a charter school's…

  19. 46 CFR 6.06 - Vessels operated by or chartered to Military Sealift Command.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

    2014-10-01

    ... Command. 6.06 Section 6.06 Shipping COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO... by or chartered to Military Sealift Command. (a) Pursuant to the request of the Deputy Secretary of... or chartered to the Military Sealift Command to carry out their assigned missions. (b) An application...

  20. 46 CFR 6.06 - Vessels operated by or chartered to Military Sealift Command.

    Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

    2012-10-01

    ... Command. 6.06 Section 6.06 Shipping COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY PROCEDURES APPLICABLE TO... by or chartered to Military Sealift Command. (a) Pursuant to the request of the Deputy Secretary of... or chartered to the Military Sealift Command to carry out their assigned missions. (b) An application...

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