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…

Abbott Students Attending Charter Schools: Funding Disparities and Legal Implications

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Bulkley, Katrina

2007-01-01

Most of New Jersey's charter schools are located in the state's poorer, urban school districts, or "Abbott" districts, and exclusively serve students from those communities. A number of other schools are located outside of the Abbott districts but enroll students from these districts. Specifically, of the 50 charter schools operating in…

Review of "Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts"

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Fuller, Bruce

2012-01-01

This report details how charter schools are increasingly run by private, nonprofit management organizations called charter school management organizations (CMOs). The researchers find that most CMOs serve urban students from low-income families, operate small schools that offer more instructional time, and attract teachers loyal to each school's…

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…

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…

A New Frontier: Utilizing Charter Schooling to Strengthen Rural Education

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Smarick, Andy

2014-01-01

This report, the first in the series, points out that, while urban families increasingly have access to a variety of school options--including charter schools--many rural families have just a single school option. There are numerous examples of rural charter schools that have done great things for students while also benefiting the larger…

Urban School Choice and Integration: The Effect of Charter Schools in Little Rock

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Ritter, Gary W.; Jensen, Nathan C.; Kisida, Brian; Bowen, Daniel H.

2016-01-01

We examine the impact of charter schools on school integration in the Little Rock, Arkansas metropolitan area. We find that charters are less likely to be hyper-segregated than traditional public schools (TPS), but TPS have compositions more closely reflecting the region. However, differences in each case are slight. Using student-level data to…

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…

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…

Laboring to Connect: The Challenges of Student-Teacher Intersubjectivity at an Urban Charter High School

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Soto, Christopher S.

2011-01-01

In this dissertation, I examine the mediating role of emotion during lived interactions between students and teachers at an urban charter high school. While the importance of student-teacher connectivity for positive school engagement has been well documented, research that attempts to describe the mechanism of that link is scarce. This…

Education Management Organizations' Collaborative Leadership Practices for Low-Performing Urban Charter Schools

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Cupidore, Calvin C., Jr.

2017-01-01

Educators have regarded building leader-member relationships using collaboration as a fundamental component to successfully improve students' academic achievement. Ineffective collaborative leadership practices may lead to achievement deficits particularly for many urban charter schools operated by educational management organizations. The purpose…

Neighborhoods and Schools: Using Charter School Policy to Foster District Change

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Allen, Ann

2010-01-01

This article presents the case of community leaders who used the charter school policy as a way to effect district change for the benefit of a neighborhood in need. The case represents the potential of charter school policy to reshape the political and institutional arrangements of urban school districts, and it reengages the idea of what makes…

Generating Academic Urgency through Improved Classroom Management: A Case Study of a University and Urban Charter High School Partnership

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Morales, Erik E.

2017-01-01

This case study documents a university and secondary school partnership designed to improve classroom management and student time on task at an urban charter high school. The initiative utilized the expertise and knowledge of college of education faculty to identify and ameliorate the high school's observed barriers to students' time on task, and…

Inclusive Classrooms: A Basic Qualitative Study of K-8 Urban Charter School Teachers

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Williams, Regina N.

2017-01-01

The rapid growth of charter schools has been accompanied with numerous questions related to special education such as whether or not charter schools and their unique missions can actually meet the needs of students with disabilities (Karp, 2012). This basic qualitative study explores the practices and procedures used by primary school teachers to…

To Have and to Have Not: The Socioeconomics of Charter Schools

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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…

Leadership Coaching: A Multiple-Case Study of Urban Public Charter School Principals' Experiences

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Lackritz, Anne D.

2017-01-01

This multi-case study seeks to understand the experiences of New York City and Washington, DC public charter school principals who have experienced leadership coaching, a component of leadership development, beyond their novice years. The research questions framing this study address how experienced public charter school principals describe the…

How African American and Hispanic High School Students in an Urban Charter High School May Benefit from the Early College High School Model of Receiving College Credits?

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Pitchford-Nicholas, Gloria Jean

2015-01-01

The preparedness of students to enter college is an ongoing issue of national concern. The purpose of the study was to conduct a mixed method descriptive case study to answer the question: "How African-American and Hispanic High School Students in an Urban Charter High School may benefit from the Early College High School Model of receiving…

The Fiscal Externalities of Charter Schools: Evidence from North Carolina. Working Paper 182

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Ladd, Helen F.; Singleton, John D.

2018-01-01

A significant criticism of the charter school movement is that funding for charter schools diverts money away from traditional public schools. As shown in prior work by Bifulco and Reback (2014) for two urban districts in New York, the magnitude of such adverse fiscal externalities depends in part on the nature of state and local funding policies.…

Visioning Hope: Embracing Higher Education's Role with Urban Public Charter Schools

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Bergeron, Bette S.

2017-01-01

The purpose of this study is to reflect on the evolution of a partnership between a university and urban charter high school serving a predominately African American population. Because of the author's embeddedness both as the researcher and participant member, this research assumes the paradigm of autoethnography. Reflections on key components of…

No One Rises to Low Expectations: Citizenship Education in an "Urban" Charter School

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Hinton, Harvey, III.

2010-01-01

This dissertation examines how middle level teachers at HOPE Academy, an urban charter school with a majority African American student population, understand citizenship education and what it means to teach African American students to be good citizens. Specifically, the study: (a) investigated how teachers' personal histories and pedagogical…

Parent Involvement in Urban Charter Schools: A New Paradigm or the Status Quo?

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Smith, Joanna; Wohlstetter, Priscilla

2009-01-01

Decades of research point to the benefits of parent involvement in education. Research has also shown that white, middle-class parents are disproportionately involved. Charter schools, as schools of choice, have been assumed to have fewer involvement barriers for minority and low-income parents, but a 2007 survey of charter leaders found that…

Parent Involvement in Urban Charter Schools: New Strategies for Increasing Participation

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Smith, Joanna; Wohlstetter, Priscilla; Kuzin, Chuan Ally; De Pedro, Kris

2011-01-01

Decades of research point to the benefits of parent involvement in education. However, research has also shown that White, middle-class parents are disproportionately involved. Charter schools, as schools of choice, have been assumed to have fewer involvement barriers for minority and low-income parents, but a 2007 survey of charter leaders found…

"Locking the Door before We Got the Keys": Racial Realities of the Charter School Authorization Process in Post-Katrina New Orleans

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Henry, Kevin Lawrence, Jr.; Dixson, Adrienne D.

2016-01-01

Charter schools have become the hegemonic "solution" for urban educational reform initiatives aimed at curtailing longstanding race-based educational inequities. The "common sense" of neoliberal charter schools as the cure to persistent inequality is best illustrated in the post-Katrina New Orleans educational reforms. This…

The Central Office in a Decentralized System

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Schwartz, Heather Lee

2010-01-01

As the charter school movement has come to scale within the United States, it poses new questions about how to govern public education. With a significant rural contingent, charter schools are no longer just an urban phenomenon. Partly in response to the growth in charter schools, Paul Hill, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education,…

The Electrical and Technology Curriculum of an Urban Charter High School and Its Impact for the Female in Academic and Trades Settings

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Conway, Thomas Robert

2010-01-01

This study explores the impact of the electrical and technology curriculum of an urban charter high school in Philadelphia for the alumnae of the school. The study found a positive impact that empowered the alumnae to face gender and racial discrimination in their apprenticeship program. It also found a positive impact for alumnae that are not…

Scale & Care: Charter Schools & New Urbanism.

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Garber, Michael P.; Anderson, R. John; DiGiovanni, Thomas G.

The Charter School movement combined with New Urbanist designers have uncovered the importance of scale in creating school environments that are more responsive to the needs of children. This paper examines the possibilities for mutual benefit for school and community by integrating school-building into the new urbanist tool kit. The discussion…

The Neighborhood School Stigma: School Choice, Stratification, and Shame

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McWilliams, Julia Ann

2017-01-01

Social scientists have begun to document the stratifying effects of over a decade of unprecedented charter growth in urban districts. An exodus of students from traditional neighborhood schools to charter schools has attended this growth, creating troubling numbers of vacant seats in neighborhood schools as well as concentrating larger percentages…

Catalyst Schools: The Catholic Ethos and Public Charter Schools

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Proehl, Rebecca A.; Starnes, Heather; Everett, Shirley

2015-01-01

During the past decade, Catholic leaders have been exploring options to revitalize the faltering Catholic school system especially in urban centers. One route being explored by dioceses and religious orders is opening what have been called "religious charter schools." Though not technically religious schools, they integrate many of the…

The Charter School Allure: Can Traditional Schools Measure up?

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May, Judy Jackson

2006-01-01

The school choice debate evokes compelling arguments by advocates and opponents alike. As the controversy continues, urban school districts are losing significant resources to charter schools. Districts seeking to compete in the race to reclaim dollars lost to the school choice battle should emulate the factors that have propelled parents to seek…

A Case Study of the Historically Successful Roles of African American Teachers in Contemporary, Selected, Urban Charter Schools in New York

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Benson, Shanelle R.

2010-01-01

Purpose. The purpose of this study was to determine, to what degree, African American teachers in five selected, urban charter schools in New York performed the historical roles of counselor, advocate, disciplinarian, surrogate parent, and role model in, to determine how African American Teachers perceived the importance of performing the…

Wave of the Future: Why Charter Schools Should Replace Failing Urban Schools

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Smarick, Andy

2008-01-01

In a decade and a half, the charter school movement has gone from a glimmer in the eyes of a few Minnesota reformers to a maturing sector of America's public education system. Now, like all 15-year-olds, chartering must find its own place in the world. First, advocates must answer a fundamental question: What type of relationship should the…

Denver Expands Choice and Charters

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Osborne, David

2016-01-01

Some of the most dramatic gains in urban education have come from school districts using what is known as a "portfolio strategy." Under this approach, districts negotiate performance agreements with public schools--traditional, charter, and hybrid models. The arrangement affords school leaders substantial autonomy to handcraft their…

Swords, Shields, and the Fight for Our Children: Lessons from Urban Prep

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King, Tim

2011-01-01

The grim statistics are well known, but bear repeating: in Chicago, close to 60% of Black boys do not graduate from high school, and only one in forty receive a bachelor's degree by age 25. In the fall of 2006, Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men-Englewood Campus, the nation's first all-male charter public high school, was opened. In 2010 and…

Violence Prevention at Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School. Summary Brief

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Fontaine, Jocelyn; Debus-Sherrill, Sara; Downey, P. Mitchell; Lowry, Samantha S.

2010-01-01

This summary brief is based on research conducted by the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center on the violence prevention activities taking place at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School during the 2008-2009 school year. Researchers from the Justice Policy Center conducted an assessment of the school's violence prevention…

School Choice in Indianapolis: Effects of Charter, Magnet, Private, and Traditional Public Schools

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Berends, Mark; Waddington, R. Joseph

2018-01-01

School choice researchers are often limited to comparing one type of choice with another (e.g., charter schools vs. traditional public schools). One area researchers have not examined is the effects of different school types within the same urban region. We fill this gap by analyzing longitudinal data for students (grades 3-8) in Indianapolis,…

76 FR 40898 - Final Priorities, Requirements, and Selection Criteria; Charter Schools Program (CSP) Grants for...

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2011-07-12

... schools. (3) A multi-year financial and operating model for the organization, a demonstrated commitment of... school model and to expand the number of high-quality charter schools available to students across the... percent threshold in this priority is consistent with the average percentage of students in large urban...

Violence Prevention in Schools: A Case Study of the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School. Final Report

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Fontaine, Jocelyn; Debus-Sherrill, Sara; Downey, P. Mitchell; Lowry, Samantha S.

2010-01-01

This report is based on research conducted by the Urban Institute's Justice Policy Center on the violence prevention activities taking place at the Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School during the 2008-2009 school year. Based on an assessment of the school's violence prevention approach using qualitative and quantitative data from…

Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. Relevance Strategic Designs: 6. Perspectives Charter School

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Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley

2008-01-01

This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…

Measuring the Effect of Charter Schools on Public School Student Achievement in an Urban Environment: Evidence from New York City

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Winters, Marcus A.

2012-01-01

This paper uses student level data from New York City to study the relationship between a public school losing enrollment to charter school competitors and the academic achievement of students who remain enrolled in it. Geographic measures most often used to study the effect of school choice policies on public school student achievement are not…

How Diverse Schools Affect Student Mobility: Charter, Magnet, and Newly Built Institutions in Los Angeles. Los Angeles School Infrastructure Project. Working Paper

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Dauter, Luke; Fuller, Bruce

2011-01-01

Everyone knows that student achievement often suffers when children and families move, leaving behind their school and neighborhood, yet, in urban districts like Los Angeles, mobility is now encouraged by the development of mixed-markets of diverse schools, including charter, pilot, and magnet schools in. Over 60 new school facilities were opened…

Taking Charge of Choice: How Charter School Policy Contexts Matter. Research Brief

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Smrekar, Claire

2011-01-01

Against the backdrop of urban school politics, in which mayors play increasingly powerful and pivotal roles, the current study examines the origins and implications of mayoral control of charter school authorization and accountability in Indianapolis (see Henig & Rich, 2004; Wong & Shen, 2007). In contrast to analyses of mayoral takeovers…

Learning Shifts of School Administrators Who Moved from Traditional Schools to Charter Schools

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Castillo-Alves, Blanca A.

2017-01-01

In the current research, there are missing voices of traditional administrators who transitioned into charter administration. This qualitative study included eight participants who are or were administrators in a large urban district in California with the purpose of understanding their experiences and differences in terms of how they learned to…

Case Studies of Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools. Core Academic Strategic Designs: 2. Noble Street Charter High School

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Shields, Regis Anne; Ireland, Nicole; City, Elizabeth; Derderian, Julie; Miles, Karen Hawley

2008-01-01

This report is one of nine detailed case studies of small urban high schools that served as the foundation for the Education Resource Strategies (ERS) report "Strategic Designs: Lessons from Leading Edge Small Urban High Schools." These nine schools were dubbed "Leading Edge Schools" because they stand apart from other high…

When the African-Centered Paradigm Is Not Enough: Lessons from an Urban Charter School

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Clarkson, Lesa M. Covington; Johnstone, Jerika R.

2011-01-01

This article reflects on processes and characteristics that had a positive impact on improving mathematics achievement at an African-centered charter school. In doing so, an exploratory look into organizational culture provides the basis for a discussion on African-centered school culture. African-centered education played a major role in…

Segregation, Desegregation, Segregation: Charter School Options as a Return to Separate and Unequal Schools for Urban Families

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Chapman, Thandeka K.

2018-01-01

The controversial glory of the "Brown" decisions and the retraction of court-ordered reforms represent the limited gains of racial justice in education and the protection of white privilege through law and policy. The return to segregation, as propagated through the rise of racially and economically segregated charter schools, exhibits…

Maritime Tactile Education for Urban Secondary Education Students

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Sulzer, Arthur Henry, IV

2012-01-01

Urban high-school students' low average level of academic achievement is a national problem. A lack of academic progress is a factor that contributes to students failing to graduate. In response to these urban high school student problems, a growing number of urban charter high schools have opened as an alternative to the traditional public high…

Organizing for Instruction: A Comparative Study of Public, Charter, and Catholic Schools

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Dorner, Lisa M.; Spillane, James P.; Pustejovsky, James

2011-01-01

Guided by theories of institutions, organizations, and sense-making, this manuscript examines how public, charter, and Catholic school staff in a large urban area organize for instruction and respond to educational change. To build theory about institutional processes of "organizing" from participants' perspectives, data included a…

Teacher Quality and Sorting across Traditional Public and Charter Schools in the Detroit Metropolitan Region

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Addonizio, Michael F.; Kearney, C. Philip; Gawlik, Marytza A.

2015-01-01

In the quest to raise student achievement in low-performing urban schools, researchers often point to the central importance of recruitment and retention of a high quality teacher workforce (Lankford, Loeb and Wyckoff 2002; Rivkin, Hanushek and Kain 2005; Jacob 2007). At the same time, advocates have proposed charter schools not only as a means to…

Is Choice a Panacea? An Analysis of Black Secondary Student Attrition from KIPP, Other Private Charters, and Urban Districts

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Vasquez Heilig, Julian; Williams, Amy; McNeil, Linda McSpadden; Lee, Christopher

2011-01-01

Public concern about pervasive inequalities in traditional public schools, combined with growing political, parental, and corporate support, has created the expectation that charter schools are the solution for educating minorities, particularly Black youth. There is a paucity of research on the educational attainment of Black youth in privately…

"It's Just Really Not Me": How Pre-Service English Teachers from a Traditional Teacher Education Program Experience Student-Teaching in Charter-School Networks

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Salerno, April S.; Heny, Natasha A.

2016-01-01

Though teacher educators nationwide are considering ways to provide urban placements for pre-service teachers (PSTs), little research has examined how PSTs experience placements in schools operated by charter management organizations (CMOs). This study considers CMOs--which often hold particular instructional and classroom management…

The Coded Schoolhouse: One-to-One Tablet Computer Programs and Urban Education

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Crooks, Roderic N.

2016-01-01

Using a South Los Angeles charter school of approximately 650 students operated by a non-profit charter management organization (CMO) as the primary field site, this two-year, ethnographic research project examines the implementation of a one-to-one tablet computer program in a public high school. This dissertation examines the variety of ways…

No-Excuses for Character: A Critique of Character Education in No-Excuses Charter Schools

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Dishon, Gideon; Goodman, Joan F.

2017-01-01

The "no-excuses" model of education has become one of the most prominent educational alternatives for urban youth. Recently, notable no-excuses charter schools have begun a concerted effort to develop students' character strengths, striving to increase their chances of future success. In this article, we situate the no-excuses approach…

Recognising and Developing Urban Teachers: Chartered London Teacher Status

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Bubb, Sara; Porritt, Vivienne

2008-01-01

Chartered London Teacher (CLT) status is a unique scheme designed by London Challenge to recognise and reward teachers' achievements and provide a framework for professional development. As well as having the prestige of being a Chartered London Teacher for life, educators receive a one-time payment of 1,000 British pounds from the school budget…

Agricultural Education in an Urban Charter School: Perspectives and Challenges

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Henry, Kesha A.; Talbert, Brian Allen; Morris, Pamala V.

2014-01-01

Urban school districts are viable recruitment sources for higher education in agriculture and have the ability to play a significant role in efforts to increase agricultural education program numbers at the secondary level. Secondary school increases should lead to growth in agricultural college enrollments across the country. Increasing…

Lessons Learned in Dreamland: How a Small Urban Charter School Overcame Start-Up Woes to Increase Reading Scores 28 Percent

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Carter, Carolyn J.

2011-01-01

Charter school administrators weathered start-up woes, among them challenging students with unmet needs, verbal assaults, dwindling student enrollment, and a first-year budget deficit exceeding $200,000 to implement a reading improvement strategy that holds promise for helping at-risk students read better, a point particularly underscored…

Charter Accountability for District-Run Schools: Using ESSA to Create Contract-Based Accountability for Urban Public Education

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Smarick, Andy

2016-01-01

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), gives states the opportunity to rethink their K-12 accountability systems. Gone are No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) tight rules for assessing and intervening in schools and districts. This could not come at a better time for urban schooling. Urban districts operate in a very…

Estimating the Returns to Urban Boarding Schools: Evidence from SEED. NBER Working Paper No. 16746

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Curto, Vilsa E.; Fryer, Roland G., Jr.

2011-01-01

The SEED schools, which combine a "No Excuses'' charter model with a five-day-a-week boarding program, are America's only urban public boarding schools for the poor. We provide the first causal estimate of the impact of attending SEED schools on academic achievement, with the goal of understanding whether changing a student's environment through…

Renewing Our Cities: A Case Study on School Choice's Role in Urban Renewal

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Danielsen, Bartley R.; Harrison, David M.; Zhao, Jing

2017-01-01

Urban economic development resources are often focused on bringing jobs and affordable housing to downtown areas. In contrast, there has been very little consideration given to how public charter schools and other school choice programs might act as economic development catalysts. This study examines relocation decisions made by families whose…

Threatened and Placed at Risk: High Achieving African American Males in Urban High Schools

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McGee, Ebony O.

2013-01-01

This study investigated the risk and protective factors of 11 high-achieving African American males attending 4 urban charter high schools in a Midwestern city to determine what factors account for their resilience and success in mathematics courses, and in high school more generally. This research was guided by a Phenomenological Variant of…

Charter Management Organizations and the Regulated Environment: Is It Worth the Price?

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Goodman, Joan F.

2013-01-01

Urban minority children are increasingly being educated at public schools run by charter management organizations (CMOs) characterized by a highly rule-ordered and regulated environment. These rules, enforced through continuous streams of reinforcements and penalties, while contributing to a tight focus on academics and a safe culture, have…

Selecting Effective Teachers for Urban Elementary Charter Schools: Effects of Decentralization on Principals' Decisions

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Leaks, Rakeda Antwanece

2013-01-01

In the age of No Child Left Behind and accountability, education stakeholders continue to look for ways to improve student achievement outcomes especially in schools in urban communities. Principal autonomy has been linked to successful results in student achievement. The purpose of this study was to understand how principals' perceptions of their…

Breaking through to Reluctant Readers

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Clarke, Bill

2006-01-01

With 70 percent of its student body entering school reading below grade level, Blackstone Academy Charter School realized that teachers needed to make literacy a pillar of the school's culture. This 9-12 urban high school administers a reading evaluation developed by the Northwest Evaluation Association each fall and spring to all incoming…

Investigating Constituent Values and School Policy

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Allen, Ann; Glassman, Michael; Riegel, Lisa; Dawson, Heather

2013-01-01

Using a sociopolitical perspective to understand the alignment of community values and school policies, we conducted focus groups in three geographically close but economically varied neighborhood in one Midwest urban area. The article presents findings related to constituent values, social capital, and school policies, including charter school…

Two Teacher Educators Go to the Source: Teaching an Interdisciplinary Class in an Urban Charter High School

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DiCamillo, Lorrei; Bailey, Nancy M.

2016-01-01

The authors of this article are two teacher educators who worked collaboratively to co-teach an interdisciplinary English and US history class to eleventh-grade students in an urban high school. They wanted to ensure the methods they were teaching preservice teachers were current and effective. The article discusses the foundational beliefs that…

"A Space for You to Be Who You Are": An Ethnographic Portrait of Reterritorializing Indigenous Student Identities

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Anthony-Stevens, Vanessa; Stevens, Philip

2017-01-01

This article explores the discourse practices of an Indigenous, community-based charter school and its efforts to create space for Indigenous both/and identities across rural-urban divides. The ethnographic portrait of Urban Native Middle School (UNMS) analyzes the discourse of making "a space for you", which brings together rural and…

Measuring School and Teacher Effectiveness in EPIC Charter School Consortium--Year 2. Final Report

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Potamites, Liz; Booker, Kevin; Chaplin, Duncan; Isenberg, Eric

2009-01-01

New Leaders for New Schools, a nonprofit organization committed to training school principals, heads the Effective Practices Incentive Community (EPIC), an initiative that offers financial awards to effective educators. Through this initiative, New Leaders offers financial awards to educators in two urban school districts and a consortium of…

Making School Choice Work

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DeArmond, Michael; Jochim, Ashley; Lake, Robin

2014-01-01

School choice is increasingly the new normal in urban education. But in cities with multiple public school options, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families, whether they choose a charter or district public school? To answer this question, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) researchers surveyed 4,000…

A Research Brief: "Principals' Hiring of Teachers in Philadelphia"

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Ramirez, Heidi A.; Schofield, Lynne Steuerle; Black, Melissa

2008-01-01

The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Excluding its charter schools, SDP serves approximately 165,000 students, largely from high-poverty (76%) and minority (85%)…

Review of "The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State"

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Buras, Kristen L.

2012-01-01

In "The Louisiana Recovery School District: Lessons for the Buckeye State," the Thomas B. Fordham Institute criticizes local urban governance structures and presents the decentralized, charter-school-driven Recovery School District (RSD) in New Orleans as a successful model for fiscal and academic performance. Absent from the review is…

From Corporation to Community: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in an Urban Laboratory for School Reform

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Anderson, Celia Rousseau; Bullock, Erika C.; Cross, Beverly; Powell, Angiline

2017-01-01

Background/Context: Memphis has, in many ways, become "ground zero" for neoliberal--or corporate--reform efforts, including a statewide turnaround school district, proliferation of charter schools, and value-added teacher evaluation measures. Along with these reforms come models of schooling that undermine the concept of the…

Stepping Up: How Are American Cities Delivering on the Promise of Public School Choice?

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Campbell, Christine; Heyward, Georgia; Gross, Betheny

2017-01-01

In America today, families in almost every urban community have some kind of public school choice. This report focuses on "public school choice," under which families are able to choose from both an array of traditional public schools and public charter schools. Public school choice has grown rapidly in the past 20 years; new charter…

Local Politics and Portfolio Management Models: National Reform Ideas and Local Control

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Bulkley, Katrina E.; Henig, Jeffrey R.

2015-01-01

Amid the growth of charter schools, autonomous schools, and private management organizations, an increasing number of urban districts are moving toward a portfolio management model (PMM). In a PMM, the district central office oversees schools that operate under a variety of governance models. The expansion of PMMs raises questions about local…

Urban Preparation: Young Black Men Moving from Chicago's South Side to Success in Higher Education

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Warren, Chezare A.

2017-01-01

Chezare A. Warren chronicles the transition of a cohort of young Black males from Urban Prep Charter Academy for Young Men to their early experiences in higher education. A rich and closely observed account of a mission-driven school and its students, "Urban Preparation" makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how young…

Positive Behavior Support in Schools (PBSIS): An Administrative Perspective on the Implementation of a Comprehensive School-Wide Intervention in an Urban Charter School

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Christofferson, Remi Dabney; Callahan, Kathe

2015-01-01

This research explores the implementation of a school-wide intervention program that was designed to foster and instill intrinsic values based on an external reward system. The Positive Behavior Support in Schools (PBSIS) is an intervention intended to improve the climate of schools using system-wide positive behavioral interventions to discourage…

Navigating Public-Private Partnerships: Introducing the Continuum of Control

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DiMartino, Catherine

2014-01-01

In many urban districts, the public education landscape is being transformed as private-sector providers such as educational management organizations, charter management organizations, and partner support organizations partner with or run district schools. While some private-sector providers' visions for school reform have remained static…

Lessons from the Heartland

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Miner, Barbara

2013-01-01

Wisconsin--and, in particular, urban Milwaukee--has been at the forefront of a half-century of public education experiments, from desegregation and "school choice" to vouchers and charter schools. "Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City" by Barbara J. Miner, former…

The Development of an African-Centered Urban High School by Trial and Error

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Robinson, Theresa Y.; Jeremiah, Maxine

2011-01-01

As part of the Small Schools movement in Chicago Public Schools, a high school dedicated to African-centered education was chartered. The virtues of Ma'at and the Nguzo Saba, otherwise known as the seven principles of Kwanza, were the foundational principles of the school and were to be integrated into all of the practices and policies of the…

Whose Choice? Student Experiences and Outcomes in the New Orleans School Marketplace. Research Brief

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Adamson, Frank; Cook-Harvey, Channa; Darling-Hammond, Linda

2015-01-01

As charters and other public and private schools of choice have created a new landscape in many urban areas across the country, some districts have adopted the idea of creating "portfolios" of options. Central to the philosophy of a portfolio district is continuous improvement, as lowest-performing schools are transformed or replaced. In…

Whose Choice?: Student Experiences and Outcomes in the New Orleans School Marketplace

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Adamson, Frank; Cook-Harvey, Channa; Darling-Hammond, Linda

2015-01-01

As charters and other public and private schools of choice have created a new landscape in many urban areas across the country, some districts have adopted the idea of creating "portfolios" of options. Central to the philosophy of a portfolio district is continuous improvement, as lowest-performing schools are transformed or replaced.…

Measuring Up: Educational Improvement & Opportunity in 50 Cities

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DeArmond, Michael; Denice, Patrick; Gross, Betheny; Hernandez, Jose; Jochim, Ashley

2015-01-01

This report provides a new resource for understanding the state of urban public schools in the U.S. Geared specifically toward city leaders who want to evaluate how well traditional district and charter schools are serving all their city's children and how their schools compare to those in other cities, the report measures outcomes for all public…

Blackstone Valley Prep Mayoral Academy: BVP High School

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EDUCAUSE, 2015

2015-01-01

This Rhode Island charter high school serves an intentionally diverse population of students from two urban and two suburban communities. The blended learning model is tailored by grade level and emphasizes differentiation, deeper learning in a community, and assessment. The two-page grantee profiles from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC)…

Creating Jaw-Droppingly Effective Rookie Teachers: Unpacking Teacher Preparation at the Sposato Graduate School of Education (Match Education)

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Miller, Andrew Frederic

2017-01-01

Beginning in 2000, a number of new graduate schools of education (nGSEs) have been established in the U.S. in response to increasing calls for more effective teachers. Among these are programs affiliated with "No Excuses"-style charter schools, which are focused on closing the achievement gap in urban K-12 schools. Teacher education…

Preparing students for higher education and careers in agriculture and related fields: An ethnography of an urban charter school

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Henry, Kesha Atasha

This study explored the preparation of students for higher education and careers in agriculturally-related fields at an urban charter high school. The data were collected through interviews, observations, and field notes. The data were analyzed by qualitative methodology with phenomenology as the theoretical framework. Findings indicated that administrators thought it was important to incorporate agricultural science courses into urban school curricula. They stated that agricultural science courses gave urban students a different way of looking at science and helped to enhance the science and technology focus of the school. Further, agricultural science courses helped to break urban students' stereotypes about agriculture and helped to bring in more state funding for educational programs. However they thought that it was more challenging to teach agricultural science in urban versus rural schools and they focused more on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related careers. The students had mixed views about higher education and careers in agriculture. This was based on their limited knowledge and stereotypes about agricultural majors and career options. The students highlighted several key reasons why they chose to enroll in agricultural science courses. This included the benefits of dual science credits and the ability to earn an associate degree upon successful completion of their program. Students also loved science and appreciated the science intensive nature of the agricultural courses. Additionally, they thought that the agricultural science courses were better than the other optional courses. The results also showed that electronic media such as radio and TV had a negative impact on students' perceptions about higher education and careers in agriculturally-related fields. Conclusions and recommendations are presented.

Identification and Elucidation of Culturally Embedded School Community Expectations in a Newly Chartered Urban School

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Laughlin, Mary

2012-01-01

This case study is designed to increase the understanding of an organization's cultural impact on students' improved learning. While much literature exists on best practice strategies for student learning, less is known about what influences are embedded in a school's culture that improve student learning (Angel, Christensen &…

Situated Teacher Quality: A Case Study of an Experienced Elementary School Teacher

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Kolman, Joni S.

2017-01-01

This case study examines how an experienced teacher's practice and pedagogy differs across two high-accountability urban charter schools in the United States of America (USA). Drawing on semi-structured interviews and participant observations, the findings describe variances in Rebecca's planning, use of classroom time, and curriculum flexibility,…

A Phenomenological Study on Reflective Teaching Practice

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Disu, Abimbola

2017-01-01

The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of teachers who engage in reflective teaching practice. This study was conducted at two elementary urban charter schools in New York City (NYC). A phenomenological research design was used to investigate the perspectives of twenty-one elementary school teachers who use reflective…

Finding Superman: Debating the Future of Public Education in America

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Swail, Watson Scott, Ed.

2012-01-01

In "Finding Superman," some of the most prominent educational thinkers of our time examine the pressing issues of educational equity and excellence brought to light in Davis Guggenheim's popular documentary, "Waiting for Superman." The film's portrayal of urban public schools as uniform failures and charter schools as the only viable alternative…

Type of primary education is associated with condom use at sexual debut among Chilean adolescents.

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Huneeus, Andrea; Deardorff, Julianna; Lahiff, Maureen; Guendelman, Sylvia

2014-05-01

Although condom use in adolescence is related to higher lifetime educational attainment, the association between primary education (from kindergarten to eighth grade) and adolescent sexual behavior is not well understood. This study examined the association between type of school in which primary education was completed-public, charter, or private-and condom use at sexual debut among Chilean adolescents. Drawing on the 2009 Chilean National Youth Survey, a population-based sample of general community youth aged 15 to 29 years, we conducted a study of the 4217 participants who reported onset of sexual activity during adolescence. Bivariate and multple logistic regression was used to examine the relationship between type of primary school attended (60.1% public, 30.3% charter, and 9.6% private) and condom use at sexual debut while controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior. Compared with students who completed their primary education in private or charter schools, students who completed their primary education in public schools had 1.85 (95% confidence interval, 1.12-3.04) and 1.67 (95% confidence interval, 1.26-2.23) higher odds, respectively, of not using condoms at sexual debut. Odds were similar for students living in urban settings, whereas there were too few students attending private schools in rural areas to allow meaningful estimates. Independent of household income, primary schooling is associated with sexual health behaviors among Chilean adolescents living in urban areas and can serve as a target for public health interventions designed to prevent sexually transmitted infections in adolescence.

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…

Accessing Choice: A Mixed-Methods Examination of How Latino Parents Engage in the Educational Marketplace

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Mavrogordato, Madeline; Stein, Marc

2016-01-01

School choice has become a cornerstone of education reform plans across the nation especially in urban settings where immigrant populations often settle. Latino enrollment in charter schools has increased accordingly. Yet, little is known about how Latino parents, who arguably face significant linguistic, cultural, and economic barriers, engage in…

Meeting a Math Achievement Crisis

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Jennings, Lenora; Likis, Lori

2005-01-01

An urban community spotlighted declining mathematics achievement and took some measures, in which the students' performance increased substantially. The Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, engaged the entire community and launched the campaign called "Math Everywhere", which changed Benjamin Banneker's…

Seventh Graders' Perceptions of College and Career Aspiration Supports in Two Urban Charter Middle Schools

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Berardi-Demo, Linda

2012-01-01

College and career aspirations are important to the development of students' short and long term educational and personal goals. Although students rely on information they receive and are influenced by experiences in which they engage in a variety of settings, for many, school is an important source of college and career information. How…

Educational New Paternalism: Human Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Politics of Equal Opportunity

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McDermott, Kathryn A.; Nygreen, Kysa

2013-01-01

Since the 1990s, a growing number of urban schools have gained attention for their distinctive approach to academics and character education. These schools, most of them charters, share the stated goals of closing the racial achievement gap and preparing all of their students for college. In this article, we identify common elements of their…

NEPC Review: "Renewing Our Cities" (EdChoice, March 2017) "CPR Scholarships" (American Enterprise Institute, March 2017)

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Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Germain, Emily

2017-01-01

Two recent reports contend that the introduction of school choice can promote economic development in economically distressed urban areas. The first report, published by EdChoice, presents a case study of a charter school that has, according to the report, contributed to the economic development of the city of Santa Ana, California. The second…

Examination of Spanish Literacy and Language Proficiency of African-American Students at Versatile Innovative Education Accelerated Charter High School

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Barnett, Todd L.

2017-01-01

There is a growing interest in the quandary of literacy and proficiency amongst K-12 students in the United States. Similarly, because of uncharted research about biliteracy amongst African-American students in urban schools and benefits of Spanish fluency, communicative gaps are increased and fluency is breached. If advantages are properly…

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;…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

Becoming In/Competent Learners in the United States: Refugee Students' Academic Identities in the Figured World of Difference

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Bal, Aydin

2014-01-01

A practice-based dialectic theory of identity was used in this study to explore the cultural-historical context of an urban charter school in which a group of newly arrived Muslim Turk refugee students' academic identities were formed. The school, located in the Southwestern United States, was founded by a global Islamist movement. Ethnographic…

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…

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...

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Rewriting Professional Development: Professional Learning Communities in an Urban Charter School

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Glasheen, Gregory J.

2017-01-01

This study challenges traditional professional development models, in which teachers are positioned as receptacles for knowledge and "best practices". This type of professional development devalues the local knowledge teachers possess, their theories of practice (Lytle & Cochran-Smith, 1994), and their ability to reflect on their…

Greater Expectations

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McCloskey, Patrick J.

2006-01-01

Julius Bennett was once a disinterested student destined to become a dropout. Then he enrolled in Amistad Academy, an academically focused charter middle school intent on narrowing the achievement gap between urban and suburban kids located in New Haven, Connecticut. Now Julius is making plans for college. In this article the author details the…

Assessing Change: Can Organizational Learning "Work" for Schools?

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Austin, Manila S.; Harkins, Debra A.

2008-01-01

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to measure the effectiveness and practical utility of an organizational learning intervention for an organization that was not progressive, was not specifically chartered as a learning organization, and was situated in an urban, culturally diverse, and under-privileged community. Design/methodology/approach:…

Thoughts on the Power and Promise of Parent Organizing

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Quinn, Rand; Carl, Nicole Mittenfelner

2013-01-01

Urban districts throughout the nation are contending with declining enrollment, aging facilities in disrepair, persistently low student achievement, increased competition with charters, and severe fiscal constraints. Philadelphia is a case in point. Over the past year, the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) was forced to borrow $304 million…

The Influence of Process Drama on Elementary Students' Written Language

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Anderson, Alida

2012-01-01

This article describes the influence of process drama on fourth grade students' written language productivity and specificity. Participants included 16 students with learning and/or behavioral challenges at an urban public charter school. The influence of process drama on students' written language was compared across contextualized and…

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…

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…

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…

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

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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...

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

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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...

Perceived Benefits of Yoga among Urban School Students: A Qualitative Analysis

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Wang, Donna; Hagins, Marshall

2016-01-01

This study reports on the findings of a qualitative evaluation of a yoga intervention program for urban middle and high school youth in New York City public and charter schools. Six focus groups were conducted with students who participated in a year-long yoga program to determine their perceptions of mental and physical benefits as well as barriers and challenges. Results show that students perceived the benefits of yoga as increased self-regulation, mindfulness, self-esteem, physical conditioning, academic performance, and stress reduction. Barriers and challenges for a yoga practice include lack of time and space. The extent to which the benefits experienced are interrelated to one another is discussed. Suggestions for future research and school-based programming are also offered. PMID:26884797

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…

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…

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…

"Keep That in Mind…You're Gonna Go to College": Family Influence on the College Going Processes of Black and Latino High School Boys

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Carey, Roderick L.

2016-01-01

This article highlights the voices of two 11th grade boys of color (one Black and one Latino), attending one U.S. urban charter school, as they describe the various ways their families supported their college going efforts. This study finds that these participants were equipped with what the author conceptualizes as "college going familial…

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

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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...

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Arizona Charter Schools: Resegregating Public Education?

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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…

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…

School Food Environment of Charter Schools in St. Louis

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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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…

Online High School Achievement versus Traditional High School Achievement

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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…

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

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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…

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

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…

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

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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...

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…

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…

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…

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...

The Charter School Roadmap.

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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…

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

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Eliminating the Achievement Gap: A White Paper on How Charter Schools Can Help District Leaders

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Lake, Robin; Hernandez, Alex

2011-01-01

A staggering achievement gap exists between minority and white students in America. The gap is unjust, and it is constraining the country economically, socially, and politically. Intense political pressures, labor contracts, and other forces prevent urban superintendents from closing those gaps. However, partnerships with high-performing charter…

Social Justice Education in an Urban Charter Montessori School

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Banks, Kira Hudson; Maixner, R. Alex

2016-01-01

As the Montessori Method continues its expansion in public education, a social justice lens is needed to analyze its contributions and limitations, given the increase in racial and socioeconomic diversity in the United States. Furthermore, much of the work in Social Justice Education (SJE) focuses on classroom techniques and curriculum,…

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…

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…

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…

Early Returns on District of Columbia Charter Schools. Capital Campaign

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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…

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…

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

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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…

Maryland Public Charter Schools Model Policy and Resource Guide

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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)…

Charter School Funding: Inequity's Next Frontier

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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…

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…

Strategies for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Urban Areas: The Erice 50 Charter.

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D'Alessandro, D; Arletti, S; Azara, A; Buffoli, M; Capasso, L; Cappuccitti, A; Casuccio, A; Cecchini, A; Costa, G; De Martino, A M; Dettori, M; Di Rosa, E; Fara, G M; Ferrante, M; Giammanco, G; Lauria, A; Melis, G; Moscato, U; Oberti, I; Patrizio, C; Petronio, M G; Rebecchi, A; Romano Spica, V; Settimo, G; Signorelli, C; Capolongo, S

2017-01-01

The Erice 50 Charter titled "Strategies for Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion in Urban Areas" was unanimously approved at the conclusion of the 50th Residential Course "Urban Health. Instruments for promoting health and for assessing hygienic and sanitary conditions in urban areas", held from 29th March to 2nd April 2017 in Erice, at the "Ettore Majorana" Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture and promoted by the International School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine "G. D'Alessandro" and the Study Group "Building Hygiene" of the Italian Society of Hygiene, Preventive Medicine and Public Health (SItI). At the conclusion of the intense learning experience during the Course, with more than 20 lectures, workshops and long-lasting discussions between Professors and Students, the participants identified the major points connecting urban features and Public Health, claiming the pivotal role of urban planning strategies for the management of Diseases Prevention and Health Promotion activities. The Erice 50 Charter is configured as a Decalogue for Healthy Cities and as a Think Tank for designing effective strategic actions and best practices to develop urban regeneration interventions and improve the urban quality of contemporary cities. The Decalogue is structured into the following key strategic objectives: 1. Promoting urban planning interventions that address citizens towards healthy behaviours; 2. Improving living conditions in the urban context; 3. Building an accessible and inclusive city, with a special focus on the frail population; 4. Encouraging the foundation of resilient urban areas; 5. Supporting the development of new economies and employment through urban renewal interventions; 6. Tackling social inequalities; 7. Improving stakeholders' awareness of the factors affecting Public Health in the cities; 8. Ensuring a participated urban governance; 9. Introducing qualitative and quantitative performance tools, capable of measuring the city's attitude to promote healthy lifestyles and to monitor the population's health status; 10. Encouraging sharing of knowledge and accessibility to informations. Finally, all the participants underlined that a multidisciplinary team, composed of Physicians specialized in Hygiene, Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Technicians as Architects, Urban planners and Engineers, is needed to deepen the research topic of Urban Health.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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...

An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Michigan

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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…

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

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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…

Religious Charter Schools: Gaining Ground yet Still Undefined

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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...

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…

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…

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…

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...

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

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;…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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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…

Are Charter School Unions Worth the Bargain?

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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…

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

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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…

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...

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,…

Performing the Grade: Urban Latino Youth, Gender Performance, and Academic Success

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Foiles Sifuentes, A. M.

2015-01-01

This article examines the intersection of race, gender, class, and academic success through an ethnographic case study in a Texas charter high school. The 98% working-class, Latino student population was exposed to an array of stigmas ascribed to their persons based on negative social stereotypes of race, ethnicity, gender, and class due to the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Evidence Based Education Request Desk. EBE #774

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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…

Minnesota Department of Education Special Education Primer for Charter Schools

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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…

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

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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,…

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

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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…

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...

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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…

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

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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…

Playing to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape

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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…

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...

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

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

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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...

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

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

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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...

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...

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

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

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

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

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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...

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

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

"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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Cooperative Charter Schools: New Enterprises in Instructional Delivery.

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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…

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…

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…

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.…

Using Mobile Devices in Physical Education to Enhance Learning and Physical Activity for At-Risk Girls

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Gibbone, Anne; Perez, Samantha L.; Virgilio, Stephen J.

2014-01-01

The purpose of the article is to illustrate how a physical education program uses mobile devices to motivate at-risk girls attending an urban charter school. Permitting students to use mobile devices in physical education gives students a "technological freedom" that has been removed in other contexts. The apps described in this article…

The Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP): An Analysis of One Model's Efforts to Promote Achievement in Underserved Communities

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Macey, Erin; Decker, Janet; Eckes, Suzanne

2009-01-01

Many claim that the Knowledge is Power Program has experienced success in closing the achievement gap in urban and rural communities across America. Studies suggest that KIPP charter schools enroll an overwhelming proportion of poor and minority students and often outperform their district peers. However, the purpose of this study is not to…

Race, Charter Schools, and Conscious Capitalism: On the Spatial Politics of Whiteness as Property (and the Unconscionable Assault on Black New Orleans)

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Buras, Kristen L.

2011-01-01

In this article, Kristen L. Buras examines educational policy formation in New Orleans and the racial, economic, and spatial dynamics shaping the city's reconstruction since 2005. More specifically, Buras draws on the critical theories of whiteness as property, accumulation by dispossession, and urban space economy to describe the strategic…

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...

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

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

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...

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…

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…

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…

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...

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...

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...

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…

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…

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…

"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,…

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

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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…

Charter Schools: Taking a Closer Look

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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…

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…

Special Education Enrollment and Classification in Louisiana Charter Schools and Traditional Schools. REL 2018-288

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Wolf, Patrick J.; Lasserre-Cortez, Shannon

2018-01-01

Charter schools are public schools authorized to operate with some independence from district or state public school regulations, while still being held accountable for student outcomes. Like traditional schools operated by school districts, charter schools are free and are intended to be open to all students who desire to attend. This study…

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…

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…

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

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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…

Equity Overlooked: Charter Schools and Civil Rights Policy

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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…

New Hampshire Charter Schools Parent Study 2011

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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…

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

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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…

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,…

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)

Comparing New School Effects in Charter and Traditional Public Schools

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Kelly, Andrew P.; Loveless, Tom

2012-01-01

This study investigates whether student achievement varies during the institutional life span of charter schools by comparing them to new public schools. The results show that there is little evidence that new public schools struggle with initial start-up issues to the same extent as new charter schools. Even after controlling for school…

Charter School Replication. Policy Guide

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Rhim, Lauren Morando

2009-01-01

"Replication" is the practice of a single charter school board or management organization opening several more schools that are each based on the same school model. The most rapid strategy to increase the number of new high-quality charter schools available to children is to encourage the replication of existing quality schools. This policy guide…

Charter Schools: An Experiment in School Reform. ASPIRA Issue Brief.

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Dittmar, Belinda Corazon; And Others

Charter schools incorporate the focus of magnet schools but often go beyond their academic specialization to more social goals. They can operate at both elementary and secondary levels, although they are always quite small. The greatest difference, however, between charter schools and other public schools is their status as a bridge between public…

Charter School Competition, Organization, and Achievement in Traditional Public Schools

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Davis, Tomeka M.

2013-01-01

Market models of education reform predict that the growth of charter schools will infuse competition into the public school sector, forcing traditional public schools to improve the practices they engage in to educate students. Some scholars have criticized these models, arguing that competition from charter schools is unlikely to produce…

What Works Clearinghouse Quick Review: "Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts"

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What Works Clearinghouse, 2012

2012-01-01

The study examined the effect of non-profit charter-school management organizations (CMOs) on middle school academic achievement and rates of high school graduation and post-secondary enrollment. Within eight geographically diverse states, the authors matched each charter school student with similar students attending conventional public schools.…

Charter Schools in Perspective: A Guide to Research

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Public Agenda, 2015

2015-01-01

Communities across the country are grappling with different approaches to improving their schools. Introducing or expanding charter schools is one of the approaches that states and school districts have considered or implemented. Charter schools serve more than 5 percent of public school students nationwide and make up close to 7 percent of all…

Margaret Thatcher: Iron Lady of Charter Schools

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Tanner, Daniel

2017-01-01

Documentary history reveals that charter schools are a vestige of the socially divided school system of 19th-century England. The current charter school movement in the United States raises the danger to American democracy of splitting up the U.S. school structure and creating a separate system of schools for other people's children.

Making Americans: UNO Charter Schools and Civic Education. Policy Brief 6

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Feith, David

2013-01-01

This policy brief is the third in a series of in-depth case studies exploring how top-performing charter schools have incorporated civic learning in their school curriculum and school culture. The UNO Charter School Network includes 13 schools serving some 6,500 students across Chicago. Located in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods, the…

Investigating Promising School Leadership Practices in Two California Charter Schools

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Kim, Grace

2010-01-01

The purpose of this study was to identify and to explore programs related to school leadership in two California charter schools. Four research questions guided this study: (a) What policies, programs, and processes are used to improve teacher and administrative leadership (school leadership) in charter schools? (b) How are resources used to…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

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…

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…

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... 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...

A Meta-Analysis of the Literature on the Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement

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Betts, Julian R.; Tang, Y. Emily

2016-01-01

Charter schools represent an increasingly important form of school choice in the United States. Charter schools are public schools, with a difference. Compared to traditional public schools, they are exempted from some of the state laws and regulations that govern traditional public schools. In this way, parents come to have a greater number of…

Globalization in Education Counts: A Comparative Study of Selected International School Associations and Selected Charter High Schools

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Johnson-Dunn, Tina N.

2009-01-01

The purpose of this study was to identify, examine, and compare the way globalization was perceived by 4 international school associations, 4 non-profit (corporate managed) charter high schools, and 4 independent (individually managed) charter high schools from Southern California. Selected school associations, non-profit, and independent charter…

Public School Choice and Racial Sorting: An Examination of Charter Schools in Indianapolis

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Stein, Marc L.

2015-01-01

There has been a long-standing concern among education researchers and policy makers that public school choice may lead to increased racial isolation. Improving on aggregate comparisons, I examine the sorting of students into charter schools by tracking individual students from their charter school of enrollment back to the school they were…

State Policy Snapshot: School District Facilities and Public Charter Schools

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Simnick, Russ

2015-01-01

One of the greatest challenges to the health of the public charter school movement is access to adequate facilities in which the schools operate. Public charter school facilities are rarely funded on par with school district facilities. Over the years, more states have come to realize that they have an obligation to ensure that all public school…

Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts. Updated Edition

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

2012-01-01

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…

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…

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…

WWC Quick Review of the Report "Charter School Performance in Los Angeles Unified School District: A District and Neighborhood Matched Comparison Analysis"

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What Works Clearinghouse, 2008

2008-01-01

The study examined whether charter schools have higher growth in student achievement than traditional public schools. The study analyzed data on 79 charter schools and 593 traditional public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2005-06 to 2006-07. School-level academic achievement was measured using…

Trends in the Distribution of Teacher Effectiveness in the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching: Progress Report. Working Paper WR-1036-BMGF

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Steele, Jennifer L.; Baird, Matthew; Engberg, John; Hunter, Gerald Paul

2014-01-01

As part of its effective teaching initiative, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partnered with three urban school districts across the U.S. and a group of four charter management organizations to undertake a strategic set of human capital reforms. A key objective of the "Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching" program was to…

Charter School Facilities: A Resource Guide on Development and Financing.

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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…

Charter Schools: Investment in Innovation or Funding Folly?

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Little, David; Roberts, Gregory; Ward, Diane; Bianchi, Alison B.; Metheny, Mary

The New York State School Boards of Association investigated how charter schools in the state were faring as they reached the fifth year in the state's charter school experiment, noting how they were educating special education students and how they had impacted public school districts in these times of financial stress. Data came from annual…

Capitalization of Charter Schools into Residential Property Values

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Brehm, Margaret; Imberman, Scott A.; Naretta, Michael

2017-01-01

Although prior research has found clear impacts of schools and school quality on property values, little is known about whether charter schools have similar effects. Using sale price data for residential properties in Los Angeles County from 2008 to 2011 we estimate the neighborhood level impact of charter schools on housing prices. Using an…

Many Options in New Orleans Choice System: School Characteristics Vary Widely

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Arce-­Trigatti, Paula; Harris, Douglas N.; Jabbar, Huriya; Lincove, Jane Arnold

2015-01-01

Previous studies have focused on the differences between charter schools and district schools, treating all charters within a community as essentially alike. In effect, these studies take a "top­-down" approach, assuming that the governance of the school (charter versus district) determines the nature of the school. This approach may be…

Charter Schools: Another Flawed Educational Reform? The Series on School Reform.

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Sarason, Seymour B.

This book examines why most charter schools will fail. It opens with a historical overview, describing the fate and significance of the precursor to charter schools: President Nixon's Experimental Schools Program. It then turns to the author's personal experiences in educational theory and practice, presenting and discussing the essential features…

Examining Charter School Policy and Public School District Resource Allocation in Ohio

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Linick, Matthew A.

2016-01-01

This project focuses on the competitive pressure, or the threat of competitive pressure, generated by charter school policy. This paper uses longitudinal district-level data and multiple quasi-experimental designs to examine the relationship between two Ohio charter school policies and changes in public school district instructional resource…

Making Charter School Facilities More Affordable: State-driven Policy Approaches. Innovations in Education

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US Department of Education, 2008

2008-01-01

Securing appropriate facilities can be a significant challenge for those intending to open a charter school. Although, like all public schools, charter schools receive per-pupil dollars from the state, they generally receive considerably less. Additionally, because traditional public schools rely on their district to provide their school…

Details from the Dashboard: Charter School Race/Ethnicity Demographics

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National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2012

2012-01-01

This "Details from the Dashboard" report examines race/ethnicity breakouts for public charter schools and traditional public schools at the state and the school district level. The data in this report indicate that in the large majority of states, the race/ethnicity student demographics of charter schools are almost identical to those of the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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?",…

Empowerment, Leadership, and Teachers' Intentions to Stay in or Leave the Profession or Their Schools in North Carolina Charter Schools

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Ndoye, Abdou; Imig, Scott R.; Parker, Michele A.

2010-01-01

Teacher attrition and migration plague many American schools. The situation is even more dire in charter schools across the country. On average, teacher attrition is 15 to 40% higher in charter schools than in traditional schools. This study examined the relationships among teacher empowerment, school leadership, and intentions to stay in or leave…

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…

Are Charter Schools Making a Difference? A Study of Student Outcomes in Eight States. Research Brief

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Li, Jennifer

2009-01-01

Charter schools do not generally draw the top students from other public schools. Their test-score gains are similar to those of traditional public schools, but they have higher rates of students graduating high school and attending college. [This research brief describes work done for RAND Education documented in Charter Schools in Eight States:…

Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools. Literature Review

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Blazer, Christie

2010-01-01

During the 2008-09 school year, over 5,000 charter schools operated in 40 states and Washington, D.C. and were attended by over 1.5 million students, or about three percent of the nation's public school students. Although the first U.S. charter schools opened in 1992, debate continues over whether they provide students with a better education than…

Making Room for New Public Schools: How Innovative School Districts Are Learning to Share Public Education Facilities with Charter Schools

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Sazon, Maria C.

2011-01-01

All public school children are entitled to quality public educational facilities--including those who attend public charter schools. Yet charter school leaders often spend substantial time and money searching for a facility. When they find one, they encounter significant costs associated with leasing or purchasing the building. They may have to…

NEPC Review: "Charter School Funding: Inequity in New York City" (University of Arkansas, August 2017)

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Belfield, Clive

2017-01-01

A new report by researchers at the University of Arkansas concludes that charter schools in New York City are not fairly funded, in comparison to district schools. The report asserts that this inequity is especially big for charter schools that are not co-located in public schools. The report also describes expenditure patterns across schools,…

Patterns in Illinois educational school data

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Stevens, Cacey S.; Marder, Michael; Nagel, Sidney R.

2015-06-01

We examine Illinois educational data from standardized exams and analyze primary factors affecting the achievement of public school students. We focus on the simplest possible models: representation of data through visualizations and regressions on single variables. Exam scores are shown to depend on school type, location, and poverty concentration. For most schools in Illinois, student test scores decline linearly with poverty concentration. However, Chicago must be treated separately. Selective schools in Chicago, as well as some traditional and charter schools, deviate from this pattern based on poverty. For any poverty level, Chicago schools perform better than those in the rest of Illinois. Selective programs for gifted students show high performance at each grade level, most notably at the high school level, when compared to other Illinois school types. The case of Chicago charter schools is more complex. Up to 2008, Chicago charter and neighborhood schools had similar performance scores. In the last few years, charter students' scores overtook those of students in traditional schools as the number of charter school locations increased.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

77 FR 13304 - Application for New Awards; Charter Schools Program (CSP); Grants for Replication and Expansion...

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... 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...

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…

Quality Authorizing for Online and Blended-Learning Charter Schools. NACSA Monograph

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Watson, John; Rapp, Chris

2011-01-01

Online charter schools are one key subset of the K-12 online education landscape, which also includes state virtual schools, district-level online programs, private providers of both individual courses and entire schools, and others. As of late 2010, online and blended charter schools existed in more than 20 states, serving more than 100,000…

Herding Cats: Managing Diverse Charter School Interests in Collaboration Efforts

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Gill, Sean; Yatsko, Sarah; Lake, Robin

2016-01-01

Since the first charter school law was passed in 1991, the relationship between charter schools and districts has been rife with conflict. To no one's surprise, districts have fiercely resisted competition from public schools of choice, especially when that competition grows beyond just a small number of schools and poses a real threat to the…

Charter Schools as Nation Builders: Democracy Prep and Civic Education. Policy Brief 4

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Lautzenheiser, Daniel; Kelly, Andrew P.

2013-01-01

This policy brief is the first in a series of in-depth case studies exploring how top-performing charter schools have incorporated civic learning in their school curriculum and school culture. This paper introduces Democracy Prep, a network of seven public charter schools with a civic mission at its core. Democracy Prep's founder and…

Improving Charter School Accountability: The Challenge of Closing Failing Schools

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Osborne, David

2012-01-01

Today some 5,600 charter schools are in operation, with more than two million students. Some critics persist in a fruitless argument that these schools have failed, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. But regardless of your opinion about them, charter schools are here to stay. Those concerned about public education should quit debating…

Exploring School Choice and the Consequences for Student Racial Segregation within Pennsylvania's Charter School Transfers

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Frankenberg, Erica; Kotok, Stephen; Schafft, Kai; Mann, Bryan

2017-01-01

Using individual-level student data from Pennsylvania, this study explores the extent to which charter school racial composition may be an important factor in students' self-segregative school choices. Findings indicate that, holding distance and enrollment constant, Black and Latino students are strongly averse to moving to charter schools with…

Work Environments and Labor Markets: Explaining Principal Turnover Gap between Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools

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Sun, Min; Ni, Yongmei

2016-01-01

Purpose: Knowledge about principals' leadership roles in charter schools' success has become more important as the number of charter schools increases and as we have learned more about the influence of principal leadership on school effectiveness. To contribute to the limited empirical literature on the principal labor market, this study explores…

Do Charters Retain Teachers Differently? Evidence from Elementary Schools in Florida

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Cowen, Joshua M.; Winters, Marcus A.

2013-01-01

We analyze patterns of teacher attrition from charter schools and schools in the traditional public sector. Using rich data on students, teachers, and schools in Florida, we estimate teacher effectiveness based on repeated test scores reported at the student level for each teacher over time. Among all teachers, those in charter schools appear more…

Capitalization of Charter Schools into Residential Property Values. Working Paper #46

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Imberman, Scott; Naretta, Michael; O'Rourke, Margaret

2015-01-01

While prior research has found clear impacts of schools and school quality on property values, little is known about whether charter schools have similar effects. Using sale price data for residential properties in Los Angeles County from 2008 to 2011 we estimate the neighborhood level impact of charter schools on housing prices. Using an…

Legislative Report on Charter Schools. Statutory Report Series.

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Decker, Paula Crandall; Geraghty, Lisa; Wendt, Sharon

2004-01-01

The purpose of this study was to identify and describe the actions taken on new charter school petitions or proposals. This report offers a summary of charter school activity in the 426 Wisconsin school districts during the 2002-2003 school year. The data is based upon an electronic survey administered by the Wisconsin Department of Public…

Charter Schools Indicators: A Report from the Center on Educational Governance University of Southern California. CSI-USC 2007

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Center on Educational Governance, 2007

2007-01-01

Like other public schools, California charter schools are judged primarily by one measure: student test scores. Though necessary, the Academic Performance Index and Average Yearly Progress scores can't assess charter schools' broad dimensions of student learning, program effectiveness and school operations. The state's accountability system…

Follow the money: There's no business like the ed. business...

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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.

National College Progression Rates: For High Schools Participating in the National Student Clearinghouse StudentTracker Service. High School Benchmarks

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National Student Clearinghouse, 2014

2014-01-01

This second annual report provides high school-to-college transition rates for graduates of public non-charter, public charter, and private high schools. For students of public non-charter high schools the rates are reported in 12 categories based on the school-level demographic and geographic characteristics. This timely and comprehensive data is…

A Comparison of Charter Public and Traditional Public School Principals: Who They Are and How They Function

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Vickers, Jared R.

2014-01-01

In the context of the charter school movement in the last 25 years, this author analyzed the 2007-2008 Schools and Staff Survey (SASS) data to answer two research questions: (a) after controlling for school level and school size what are the differences between traditional and charter public school principals when examining their personal and…

Research Comparing Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools. Information Capsule. Volume 1007

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Blazer, Christie

2010-01-01

During the 2008-09 school year, over 5,000 charter schools operated in 40 states and Washington, D.C. and were attended by over 1.5 million students, or about three percent of the nation's public school students. Although the first U.S. charter schools opened in 1992, debate continues over whether they provide students with a better education than…

A Case Study Comparison of Charter and Traditional Schools in New Orleans Recovery School District: Selection Criteria and Service Provision for Students with Disabilities

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Wolf, Nikki L.

2011-01-01

In post-Katrina New Orleans, Louisiana, there is a growing concentration of charter schools. The Recovery School District (RSD) has oversight of the majority of these schools. To explore charges from community advocates that RSD charter schools restricted admission and provided inadequate services for students with disabilities, the following…

Review of "Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students"

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McEwan, Patrick J.

2009-01-01

The report examines whether increasing competition from charter schools has a causal effect on the achievement of public school students in New York City, using a three-year longitudinal database of student test scores. As a measure of competition, it considers the percentage of students who left a public school for a charter school in the prior…

An Investigation of Charter School Leadership Skills and Qualities

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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…

The Effects of Charter School Competition on School District Resource Allocation

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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…

Navigating the Closure Process. Authorizing Matters. Issue Brief

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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…

High Expense: Disability Severity and Charter School Attendance in Arizona

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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,…

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…

The Short but Very Curious Legal History of Michigan's Charter Schools.

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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…

The Uneven Performance of Arizona's Charter Schools

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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…

Sexuality and HIV Education in Charter Schools: An Exploratory Study with Principals in San Diego County, California

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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…

Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models

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Malkus, Nat; Hatfield, Jenn

2017-01-01

The charter school movement is premised on the idea that, if independent operators create differentiated and innovative schooling options, families will benefit from making meaningful choices among those options that reflect their preferences. Charters are freed from many of the constraints traditional public schools face, allowing them to…

A Decade of Charter Schools: From Theory to Practice.

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Bulkley, Katrina; Fisler, Jennifer

2003-01-01

Analysis of selected set of charter-school research reports through late 2001. Finds, for example, that charter schools are more autonomous than other public schools, but that the jury is still out on some of the most important questions, including those about innovation, accountability, equity, and outcomes. Provides a framework for examining…

Mapping the Profit Motive: The Distinct Geography and Demography of For-Profit Charter Schools

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Robertson, W. Brett

2015-01-01

For-profit charter schools represent a controversial new market-based education reform (Garcia, Barber, & Molnar, 2009; Conn, 2002). This essay explores how schools operated by for-profit corporations differ from those operated by non-profit organizations. Specifically, do for-profit charter schools locate in demographically distinct areas and…

Losing Voice? Educational Management Organizations and Charter Schools' Educational Programs

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Bulkley, Katrina

2005-01-01

Charter schools are one form of decentralizing public education by shifting power into the hands of school stakeholders by providing them with more "voice" in day-to-day decisions. However, the increasing involvement of educational management organizations (EMOs) as managers of charter schools raises new questions about the influence of school…

Do Charter Schools Improve Student Achievement?

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Clark, Melissa A.; Gleason, Philip M.; Tuttle, Christina Clark; Silverberg, Marsha K.

2015-01-01

This article presents findings from a lottery-based study of the impacts of a broad set of 33 charter middle schools across 13 states on student achievement. To estimate charter school impacts, we compare test score outcomes of students admitted to these schools through the randomized admissions lotteries with outcomes of applicants who were not…

Books or Guards? Charter School Security Costs

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DeAngelis, Karen J.; Brent, Brian O.

2012-01-01

Little is known about the costs charter schools incur to foster security--a vexing phenomenon when one considers policymakers' and parents' seemingly high and growing want for school safety. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics and Texas, we reveal how much charter schools spend on security, how they put these resources to…

Effective Charter and Traditional School Characteristics: Aligning Findings for Informed Policy Making

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Maas, Tricia; Lake, Robin

2015-01-01

This literature review compares the current knowledge about the characteristics of effective charter schools to findings from the broader body of effective school research. We find that lists of effectiveness characteristics from the charter and traditional literatures are well aligned: good schools seem to look the same, regardless of governance…

Charter School Appeals. Policy Guide

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O'Neill, Paul T.

2009-01-01

Authorizers must decide whether a proposed school should be allowed to open and whether it should be required to close. To enable authorizers to serve as quality gatekeepers for the sector, state policy must give authorizers clear power to deny low-quality charter school applications and to close charter schools that fail to meet expectations. At…

A Case Study of Student Achievement in a Secondary Charter School

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Hung, Li-Ching; Badejo, Folashade; Bennett, Jo

2014-01-01

The quality of student learning and achievement in public schools has become a matter of public discourse and policy, thus led to the establishment of charter school concept. However, there are controversial reports on the academic performances of charter schools, inadequate information on their instructional practices, and the learning…

The Role of Charter Schools in Improving Education. Policy Brief

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Bodilly, Susan; Li, Jennifer

2009-01-01

This is one in a series of policy briefs on key education issues prepared by the RAND Corporation for the Obama administration. Despite controversy, charter schools are increasing in numbers as alternatives to traditional public schools. Research finds that charter schools do not produce the predicted negative effects and that they have some…

When Do Charter Schools Enroll Students with Disabilities?

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Arsen, David; Ray, Lisa

2004-01-01

This paper seeks to shift debate from the question of whether charter schools are serving their "fair share" of students with disabilities to the more fruitful question of how finance and choice policies influence special education enrollment rates in charter schools. A school's incentive to enroll a student with disabilities depends on…

Learning Optimized: A Conversation with Diane Tavenner

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Jacobs, Joanne

2013-01-01

Named Charter Leader of the Year in 2010 by the California Charter Schools Association, Diane Tavenner, CEO of Summit Public Schools, is responsible for the generation of multiple transformative schools and a radically different teaching model for Summit. Summit's first charter high school, Summit Prep, launched in 2003, was featured in the film…

Beyond Ideological Warfare: The Maturation of Research on Charter Schools

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Smith, Joanna; Wohlstetter, Priscilla; Farrell, Caitlin C.; Nayfack, Michelle B.

2011-01-01

Philosophical debate about charter schools often results in theory and anecdotes overshadowing empirical research. This systematic review of trends in the charter school research over the last decade helps determine where empirical evidence exists and where new research is necessary. Findings reveal that student and school outcomes are the most…

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…

Sustainability Predictions for Charter Schools in the New Millennium: A Pennsylvania Focus.

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Johnson, Addie M.

The public view of charter schools and their proposed mission will have a major impact on how well this school reform effort will be sustained. Support for charter schools in Pennsylvania has grown to such an extent that it may prevent demand for voucher systems. Parents dissatisfied with public schools elected to transfer their children to…

The Evaluation of Charter School Impacts: Final Report. NCEE 2010-4029

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Gleason, Philip; Clark, Melissa; Tuttle, Christina Clark; Dwoyer, Emily

2010-01-01

Adding to the growing debate and evidence base on the effects of charter schools, this evaluation was conducted in 36 charter middle schools in 15 states. It compares the outcomes of 2,330 students who applied to these schools and were randomly assigned by lotteries to be admitted (lottery winners) or not admitted (lottery losers) to the schools.…

The Charter: Conditions of Diffuse Socialization in Schools.

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Meyer, John W.

The effects of a school on diffuse attributes of students such as their values are seen as produced by the wider social definition of the products of the school--here called its "charter". Schools or systems of schools which are chartered to confer major status gains and entry into diffusely-defined elites are seen as more likely to have broad…

Circles of Influence: Rational Decision-Making, Strategic Positioning, and the Formation of Charter School Clusters in New Jersey

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d'Entremont, Chad

2012-01-01

A major focus of charter school research has been the potential impact of increased school choice on student sorting by race/ethnicity and socio-economic status. Researchers have argued that charter schools may increase segregation by allowing families to separate into more homogeneous school communities. Yet surprisingly, little attention has…

What's a Charter School? How the Charter School Debate and Misinformation Mediate the Local Production of School Choice

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Convertino, Christina

2017-01-01

In this article, based on an ethnographic study in Sundale City, Arizona, I use an interpretive and anthropological approach to policy analysis to highlight how social actors interpreted the national charter school debate to enact local school choice policy development in their everyday lives. Specifically, findings from this study provide a…

A Growing Movement: America's Largest Public Charter School Communities. Twelfth Annual Edition

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David, Rebecca; Hesla, Kevin; Pendergrass, Susan Aud

2017-01-01

Public charter schools are unique public schools that are allowed the freedom to be innovative while being held accountable for advancing student achievement. Over the past ten years, enrollment in charter schools has nearly tripled--from 1.2 million students in 2006-07 to more than 3 million students in 2016-17. The number of school districts…

Evaluating the Performance of Philadelphia's Charter Schools. Working Paper WR-550-WPF

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Zimmer, Ron; Blanc, Suzanne; Gill, Brian; Christman, Jolley

2008-01-01

Plagued by long-term poor student outcomes, a number of reforms have been implemented within the Philadelphia School District to improve performance, including the use of charter schools. The number of charter schools in Philadelphia has risen from four to more than 60 over the past decade, and these schools now serve over 30,000 students. Debate…

The Muzzled Dog That Didn't Bark: Charters and the Behavioral Response of D.C. Public Schools

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Sullivan, Margaret D.; Campbell, Dean B.; Kisida, Brian

2008-01-01

As of the 2006-2007 school year, 19,733 students attended charter schools in the District of Columbia, representing over a quarter of the District's total public school student population and one of the largest charter school markets in the country. It is under such circumstances, some suggest, that choice will spur competition, ultimately…

The Best of Both Worlds: Can District-Charter Co-Location Be a Win-Win?

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DeArmond, Michael; Nelson, Elizabeth Cooley; Bruns, Angela

2015-01-01

District schools and charter schools are often at odds. When the two school types share a school building--arrangements known as "co-locations"--the tensions can boil over. But what happens when district and charter leaders approach co-location as a tool to promote school improvement, rather than simply a real estate deal? Based on…

Opening the Schoolhouse Door: Helping Charter Schools Access Space in District-Owned Facilities

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Gill, Sean; Maas, Tricia

2017-01-01

This paper is part of a series on district-charter cooperation, which has been studied by the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) for more than five years. School choice is growing in cities with the addition of charter schools, and more district leaders are adopting a portfolio approach to schooling: giving district schools autonomy…

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…

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…

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…

Authorizing Charters: Helping Mom-and-Pops in Ohio

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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…

A Smarter Direction for Charter Schools

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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…

An Exploratory Analysis of Features of New Orleans Charter Schools Associated with Student Achievement Growth. REL 2018-287

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Wolf, Patrick J.; Lasserre-Cortez, Shannon

2018-01-01

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the number of charter schools in New Orleans has rapidly expanded. During the 2012/13 school year--the period covered by this study--of the 85 public schools in New Orleans, 75 were chartered, enrolling more than 84 percent of all public school students in the city in 92 different school campuses. This study…

How Charter Schools Do, and Don't, Inspire Change in Traditional Public School Districts

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Linick, Matthew; Lubienski, Christopher

2013-01-01

For some, charter schools represent the hope of improved student learning and performance. It is hoped to understand the theory of change underlying charter schools relative to the actual evidence on their impact. In order to address this issue, the authors examine the logic of organizational change and competitive options, drawing on evidence…

Burnout Factories: The Challenge of Retaining Great Teachers in Charter Schools

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Fusco, Mark

2017-01-01

In its well-intentioned effort to create alternatives to public school dropout factories, the charter school sector has created teacher burnout factories. But it does not have to be this way. Charter schools can continue to maintain high standards while creating a more sustainable work environment for teachers. This article examines the teacher…

Teacher Turnover in Organizational Context: Staffing Stability in Los Angeles Charter, Magnet, and Regular Public Schools

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Newton, Xiaoxia A.; Rivero, Rosario; Fuller, Bruce; Dauter, Luke

2018-01-01

Background/Context: Studies that compare the achievement benefits of charter public schools versus traditional public schools (TPSs) yield quite uneven results. The quality and long-term commitment of teachers represent related mediators that may help to explain effective and ineffective charter schools. Early findings on the comparative rates of…

A Comparative Analysis of Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools

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Smith, Jodi Renee Abbott

2014-01-01

The focus of this descriptive research study was to compare charter and traditional public schools on the academic knowledge of fifth grade students as measured by Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) in a suburb of a large southwestern city. This analysis also compared charter and traditional public schools on AYP status. It was…

Partnerships between Charter Schools and Other Organizations. A Guide for State Policymakers

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Smith, Joanna

2008-01-01

This state policy guide looks at partnerships between charter schools and community, faith-based, and for-profit organizations as one way for these schools to access essential goods and services. Each type of partnership poses specific challenges and opportunities, and, based on a review of charter school legislation and interviews with state…

Disparities in Charter School Resources--The Influence of State Policy and Community

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Bodine, Edward; Fuller, Bruce; Gonzalez, Maria-Fernanda; Huerta, Luis; Naughton, Sandra; Park, Sandra; Teh, Laik Woon

2008-01-01

Recent findings show that students attending charter schools in the United States achieve at comparable or lower levels to those enrolled in regular public schools, perhaps due to uneven quality and disparities in the levels of resources acquired by charter schools. But little is known as to what state and local factors contribute to disparate…

Empowering Teachers? An Exploratory Study of Personnel Practices in Virtual Charter Schools in the United States

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Beck, Dennis; Maranto, Robert

2014-01-01

Virtual charter schools have the potential to transform teacher personnel management. However, there is currently little evidence that they are doing so. This study examined how 89 teachers at two virtual charter schools perceived school personnel practices and leadership. Survey analysis indicated that teachers perceived personnel practices as…

The Nature of Online Charter Schools: Evolution and Emerging Concerns

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Waters, Lisa Hasler; Barbour, Michael K.; Menchaca, Michael P.

2014-01-01

Online charter schools are unique among K-12 online learning options for students. They are full-time, public schools that combine online learning with traditional and home schooling practices. They are often chartered by a state agency, supported in full or in part with state funds and most often managed by a private educational management…

Student Achievement in New York City Middle Schools Affiliated with Achievement First and Uncommon Schools. Final Report

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Teh, Bing-ru; McCullough, Moira; Gill, Brian P.

2010-01-01

In recent years, some of the most ambitious charter school operators, with the support of philanthropic investors, have sought to increase the scale and scope of their work by creating charter management organizations (CMOs) that aim to replicate effective charter school models across multiple campuses. CMOs are nonprofit organizations with…

The Paperwork Pile-Up: Measuring the Burden of Charter School Applications

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McShane, Michael Q.; Hatfield, Jenn; English, Elizabeth

2015-01-01

In 1988, Albert Shanker, head of the United Federation of Teachers, suggested that small groups of teachers could design charter (performance-based)schools as alternatives to local public schools. In theory, charter school teachers would be held in check by a performance contract but would be otherwise free from rules, norms, and regulations that…

Charter Schools; Franchise for Creativity or License for Fractionation?

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Wayson, William W.

1999-01-01

Charter schools can foster greed or graft more easily than they can become models for what schools should be, and it is not likely that they can change the educational system. However, charter schools can promote creativity and they have the potential for making small impacts that can change the world one child at a time. (SLD)

Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson: The Peyton Manning of Charter Schools

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Skinner, David

2007-01-01

Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson has laid down a bold challenge to the city's troubled public school system: improve or see your students migrate to the city's growing roster of impressive charter schools. This is no idle threat. In the 2006-2007 academic year, the mayor oversaw 16 charter schools serving 3,870 students. Peterson is currently the…

Fast Break in Indianapolis: A New Approach to Charter Schooling

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Hassel, Bryan C.

2004-01-01

This report has describes how the young Indianapolis charter school initiative can claim a number of successes: (1) Many community leaders have stepped forward to spearhead the creation of charter schools, bringing new energy and resources into public education; (2) Parents have flocked to the new schools, lining up on waiting lists and noting…

On Becoming College Prep: Examining the Challenges Charter School Staff Members Face while Executing a School's Mission

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Farmer-Hinton, Raquel L.

2006-01-01

This article draws from a case study investigating the organizational characteristics of a college preparatory charter high school and the impact of that college preparatory climate on the postsecondary plans of the school's graduating classes. Although charters provide local communities with alternatives to existing educational institutions, many…

A Guide for Developing a Business Plan for Charter Schools.

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Charter Friends National Network, St. Paul, MN.

This guide may be used by charter school operators in developing a business plan that can be used as a management tool in individual schools and in preparing applications for charters, renewals, and grants and loans. A sound business plan must reflect the school's ideas, assets, and needs clearly and succinctly. Drafting a business plan begins…

Study of the Relationship between Self-Reported Leadership Styles of Charter School Principals and Their Performance

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Alizor, John O.

2012-01-01

The purpose of this quantitative study, using the three-way repeated measures ANOVA, was to identify certain leadership styles used by effective and ineffective charter high school principals that impact the students' academic achievement. Principal ratings and school demographic characteristics were gathered from 19 charter schools. The study's…

The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs. Educational Innovations

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Frumkin, Peter; Manno, Bruno V.; Edgington, Nell

2011-01-01

"The Strategic Management of Charter Schools" addresses the challenges facing such schools by mapping out, in straightforward and highly pragmatic terms, a management framework for them. The first charter school law in the United States was enacted in Minnesota in 1991. In the twenty years since that modest beginning, the movement has burgeoned…

"It's Our Best Choice Right Now": Exploring How Charter School Parents Choose

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Villavicencio, Adriana

2013-01-01

One of the underlying premises of the charter school movement is that quality drives consumer choice. As educational consumers, parents are viewed as rational actors who, if given the choice, will select better performing school. In examining the choice processes of charter school parents, however, this study calls into question the extent to…

Should Charter Schools Enroll More Special Education Students: Education Next Talks with Robin J. Lake, Gary Miron, and Pedro A. Noguera

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Lake, Robin J.; Miron, Gary; Noguera, Pedro A.

2014-01-01

Should charter schools be required to enroll students labeled special needs at the same rate as local school districts, that is, educate their "fair share"? Or is it reasonable for a charter school to counsel special education students to go elsewhere, if another school would be a better fit? If "fair share" requirements are…

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…