Parker Baxter

Closing schools in a time of enrollment decline

Enrollment declines nearing 10% in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and other metro area school districts this fall have revived the possibility of closing and...

Paul Hill

Founder, CRPE

Director, Center for Education Policy Analysis

School closures and parent engagement: Lessons from Aurora, Colorado

In 2013, Aurora, Colorado, was experiencing major demographic changes. A housing boom in this city east of Denver was bringing new families to parts of...

Paul Hill

Founder, CRPE

Alvin Makori

Research Assistant

Parker Baxter

Director, Center for Education Policy Analysis

We Need to Prepare A New Generation of Education Systems Leaders

For more than a year, the U.S. Secretary of Education and the president of the American Federation of Teachers have been engaged in a bitter...

Parker Baxter

Director, Center for Education Policy Analysis

Ch. 5 – For Charter Schools and School Districts, Empty Space Equals Opportunity (HFR ’11)

In this chapter Parker Baxter argues that by reimagining the distribution of funding, facilities, and other district assets without regard to whether a school is...

Parker Baxter

Director, Center for Education Policy Analysis

Ch. 2 – Mastering Change: When Charter Schools and District Schools Embrace Strategic Partnership (HFR ’11)

This chapter examines factors that are driving districts to collaborate with charters, what those collaborations look like, and the politics both sides must deal with....

Parker Baxter

Director, Center for Education Policy Analysis

Parker Baxter

Director, Center for Education Policy Analysis

Background

Publications

Closing schools in a time of enrollment decline

Paul Hill

Parker Baxter

School closures and parent engagement: Lessons from Aurora, Colorado

Paul Hill

Alvin Makori

Parker Baxter

We Need to Prepare A New Generation of Education Systems Leaders

Parker Baxter

Ch. 5 – For Charter Schools and School Districts, Empty Space Equals Opportunity (HFR ’11)

Parker Baxter

Ch. 2 – Mastering Change: When Charter Schools and District Schools Embrace Strategic Partnership (HFR ’11)

Parker Baxter