Finding a Great Fit: Improving the School Choice Process for Students with Disabilities
Two briefs provide a summary of the special education landscape in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and offer recommendations for further steps that might be taken to strengthen the cities’ support structures for parents of children with disabilities.
A Middle Way for States in the ESSA Era: Lessons from Texas
The report examines the Texas Education Agency’s System of Great Schools (SGS) initiative, which calls on districts to manage school performance in new ways, expands access to school choice options, and takes a dynamic approach to managing their supply of schools.
After Decades of Financial Challenge, How Can Oakland Reorient Itself?
In this brief, we explore evidence related to the causes of OUSD’s financial crisis and why previous efforts to right the ship have failed.
Seizing the Opportunity: Educating Students with Disabilities in Charter Schools
This report is the first step in developing an evidence base about how charter schools meet the needs of unique learners, how they can improve in this work, and what aspects of chartering as a governance model support or impede their ability to do so.
It Takes a City: How the Portfolio Strategy Can Bring Schools, Districts, and Communities Together to Transform Special Education
We convened leaders from cities around the country to explore ways that school districts can use the portfolio strategy to help cities improve education for students with disabilites—and ultimately for all students.
Lessons from the Trenches: Sustaining Improvements after State Takeover
This report provides key lessons for states seeking to make improvements in districts and schools navigating a transition to local control.
The Changing Landscape of Homeschooling in the United States
This brief explores the changing demographics of homeschoolers, provides an overview of new forms of homeschooling, and outlines the variety of state policies that govern homeschooling.
Fulfilling the Promise of School Choice by Building More Effective Supports for Families
This report focuses on the work of DC School Reform Now. Since 2011, the organization has focused on making school choice work for families in Wards 7 and 8, two underserved areas of the nation’s capital.
Schools Lead the Way but the System Must Change: Rethinking Career and Technical Education
CRPE has identified 32 programs around the country that represent the variety of efforts being used to reinvent career and technical education.
Student Mobility in Kansas City
This brief examines student mobility in Kansas City Public Schools.
