Salvaging Assets: Considering Alternatives to School Closure
What are the options for charter school authorizers or entities with similar responsibilities who want to preserve assets when closing low-performing schools? This study suggests that authorizers rarely try to salvage these assets.
Challenges and Charter Schools: How Families with Special Needs Students Perceive and Use Charter School Options
This report addresses choices made at the intersection of two very important trends in education: special education and charter schools.
Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Ohio
New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before—ensuring that all students meet state standards. This report explores how these expectations have altered resource decisions in Ohio.
Mayoral Intervention: Right for Seattle Schools?
This paper reviews other cities’ experiences with mayoral intervention and provides an evidence base for use in case takeover proposals surface again in Seattle.
Special Education Challenges and Opportunities in the Charter School Sector
This report explores the various difficulties charter schools face related to educating children with disabilities and examines potential opportunities to address those.
The School Finance Redesign Project: A Synthesis of Project Work to Date
This Interim Report explains the study questions, research strategies, and early findings of the School Finance Redesign Project.
Performance Pressure and Resource Allocation in Washington State
New accountability systems require that states and districts accomplish something never accomplished before—ensuring that all students meet state standards. This report explores how these expectations have altered resource decisions in Washington State.
Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2007
Like previous editions of Hopes, Fears, & Reality, the 2007 edition explores some of the most challenging issues facing the charter school movement with a focus on the pressing concerns, tensions, and opportunities involved with teaching, leading, and governing charter schools.
Lessons from the Headlines: Key Questions for Districts Attempting to Close Schools
This brief touches on the experiences of urban school districts as they sought to close schools. It offers insight into the critical questions districts encountered and different paths chosen during the process.
Are Public Schools Losing Their Best? Assessing the Career Transitions of Teachers and Their Implications for the Quality of the Teacher Workforce
This paper examines attrition and mobility of early-career teachers in North Carolina public schools using teacher value-added measures.