Identifying and Replicating the “DNA” of Successful Charter Schools: Lessons from the Private Sector
This brief begins with a look at the main problems faced by organizations attempting to replicate charter schools at scale, followed by a summary of lessons from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors about the process of replicating complex organizations.
Toward Effective Resource Use: Assessing How Education Dollars Are Spent
This paper shows how districts can assess the efficiency of their own resource use compared to similar districts and judge whether non-instructional expenditures are excessive.
Resource Allocation in Traditional and Reform-Oriented Collective Bargaining Agreements
When school boards enter contracts with teachers unions, they determine the use of nearly half of all the funds available to public education. In this paper Julia Koppich looks at an important source of resource allocation decisions—teacher collective bargaining agreements.
