CRPE Study Explores Special Education and Charter Schools
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has received a $450,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation to study charter schools and special education. Nationwide, the question of lower enrollment of special education students in charter schools continues to create lively speculation. Charter school critics argue that charter schools discourage families of students with special […]
To Keep Improving Options for Students, Sustain Alonso’s Strategy
By Paul Hill and Sarah Yatsko Baltimore is right to applaud City Schools CEO Andrés Alonso and to be sorry to see him go. Like other cities that lose an effective school district leader, the city is also at risk of losing what he has done. Everything depends on understanding how he has approached his […]
New CRPE Study of Washington State Principals
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has received a $435,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study principals in Washington State and how they are hired and supported by the state’s school districts. With new statewide teacher and principal evaluation provisions and an upcoming transition to Common Core State Standards, Washington […]
New CRPE Study Examines Effects of Unified Enrollment Systems
The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has received a $500,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation for a two-year study on the effect of unified enrollment systems on families and schools. Led by Research Director Dr. Betheny Gross, CRPE will analyze the design and implementation of unified enrollment systems in Denver Public Schools and […]
To Survive, Charters Cannot Ignore the Bottom Line
by Marguerite Roza By now, most people in the education world have come to terms with the notion that resources are likely to be highly constrained in the years ahead. Charters, too, have faced the unsavory consequences of tight budgets as they have seen their state funds squeezed or delayed. Most charters have focused their […]
Charters Branch Out: Do Moves Into Affluent Areas Signal an Important Trend?
by Jeffrey Henig Twenty years ago, in the early days of the charter school movement, the hot controversy was “creaming.” Critics worried that charters would target more advantaged suburban populations, skimming off the students most likely to succeed and leaving traditional public schools in low-income and minority neighborhoods even more isolated, underfunded, and burdened with […]
Tech-Based Learning: The New Frontier for Charters?
by Michael Horn When charter schools were created in the 1990s, they were intended to spur innovation in America’s K–12 school system. Charters, it was thought, would look radically different from what we knew: schools divided into conventional classrooms in conventional grades. Some charter schools fulfilled that hope. All too often, however, charter schools looked, […]
New Frontiers: An Overview of Charter Schools in 2012
by Robin Lake The Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) has been producing Hopes, Fears, & Reality since 2005, after a set of major studies showed conflicting results about charter school performance and caused quite a dustup. CRPE created this annual report and its overall research program on charter schools with two goals in mind: […]
Incubate for America?
by Ethan Gray If you have a winning idea for a new business, the United States has the needed infrastructure to get the business off the ground. There are venture capital markets, economic development councils, mentorship programs, chamber of commerce programs, and myriad other supports to help your business idea become a reality. But what […]
2012 Year in Review
2012 was a very productive year at CRPE. Below is a recap of some of our more notable publications, and our webinars can be found here. New Book Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies For Managing Urban Schools (December 2012, Brookings Press) explains the underlying idea of the portfolio strategy. Based on findings from studies of […]