What Have We Learned in 15 Years about Getting High-Quality Charter Schools? Lessons for Washington State
In this one-page brief, Robin Lake summarizes key lessons for creating high-quality charter schools.
Paying for Scale: Results of a Symposium on CMO Finance
In April 2010, the Center on Reinventing Public Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation convened a group of researchers and financial analysts to discuss how to better understand the financing and sustainability of CMOs. This report summarizes the conversation and main themes that emerged from the meeting.
BRIEF – Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement: A Case Study of Ohio
This one-page brief summarizes a working paper that examines the variation in charter school performance in one state to assess one of the key levers of charter school policy: the decision about which types of organizations may authorize charter schools.
New York City’s iZone
In 2010, New York City’s Department of Education created the Innovation Zone to employ cutting edge technology to solve students’ most persistent learning problems. This study analyzes the iZone’s impact so far.