Working Without a Safety Net: How Charter School Leaders Can Best Survive on the High Wire
In this report CRPE researchers explore the complex job of charter school directors, who may have little experience with facilities, finances, hiring, or strategic planning; some of the most serious issues for charter schools. A series of additional research briefs targets different audiences to highlight relevant information from the report.
Returns to Skill and Teacher Wage Premiums: What Can We Learn By Comparing the Teacher and Private Sector Labor Markets?
This paper offers empirical evidence on the size of incentives that might be needed to make teaching a relatively more attractive occupation for people with technical skills or high academic aptitude.
Recruiting New Teachers to Urban School Districts: What Incentives Will Work
This paper explores the value teachers place on financial incentives and how much of a salary incentive is needed to attract new teachers to high-needs schools.
Exploring Success in the Charter Sector: Case Studies of Six Charter Schools Engaged in Promising Practices for Children with Disabilities
This report presents findings from exploratory case studies of six charter schools identified due to their reported success educating children with disabilities.
Finding a Balance: How Application and Authorization Policies Impact School Supply
This paper describes how high-quality authorizers have changed their application procedures and standards and examines the effect these changes have had on the quality and quantity of new charter school applicants.
Quality Improvement and Performance Management in Schools: Lessons From Abroad
This paper considers systematic school reform efforts in Australia, New Zealand and England, where each government took steps to heighten accountability, decentralize governance and invest in schools’ capacity to improve performance.
Closing the Skill Gap: New Options for Charter School Leadership Development
This report analyzes specialized charter leadership programs and finds that they show promise in their responsiveness, course relevance, and methods of instruction.
Contrasting Approaches to Charter School Oversight
This paper outlines competing principles of charter school oversight and examines how those principles affect an authorizer’s approach to finding and selecting new schools, conducting day-to-day oversight of performance, and responding to the threat of school failure.
Tough Calls: Identifying and Addressing School-Level Problems
This working paper summarizes common problems faced by new and established charter schools and highlights strategies to diagnose and, when appropriate, intervene in struggling schools.
A Leap of Faith: Redesigning Teacher Compensation
This paper briefly summarizes three School Finance Redesign Project teacher compensation studies that begin to help build the evidence base for teacher pay reform.