Good Options and Choices for All Families: How Some Portfolio Districts Are Collaborating with Charter Schools
This “Spotlight” brief describes successful collaborative initiatives in district-charter Compact cities, and highlights the advantages that portfolio district superintendents bring to collaboration.
Why the Gap? Special Education and New York City Charter Schools
This study uses NYC data to analyze the factors driving the gap in special education enrollment between charter and traditional public schools.
Assessing the Outcomes of Charter School Students with Special Needs: Research Design Brief
This brief outlines challenges of producing rigorous and useful research on how students with special needs fare in charters and makes recommendations for designing studies needed to inform policy and practice.
Defining and Organizing for School Autonomy
This brief explains how portfolio districts define and implement autonomies for schools.
Improving Student Opportunities and Outcomes in Hartford Public Schools
This analysis of Hartford Public Schools seeks to show whether opportunities to attend quality schools and student outcomes have improved as the district implemented the portfolio strategy.
District-Charter Collaboration Compact: Interim Report
This interim report details the first two years of district-charter collaboration in 16 Compact cities, including lessons learned and potential opportunities and challenges ahead.
Ch. 4 – Innovating Toward Sustainability: How Computer Labs Can Enable New Staffing Structures and Savings (HFR ’12)
Suzanne Simburg and Marguerite Roza lay out the cost savings possible if blended learning were adopted by all U.S. public elementary schools, not just charter schools.
Ch. 3 – Innovating at Last? The Rise of Blended Learning in Charter Schools (HFR ’12)
Michael Horn writes about how and why many charter schools in California have innovated through technology and asks what it will take for more to follow nationwide.
Ch. 2 – Incubate for America? (HFR ’12)
Ethan Gray argues that cities should incubate their own high-performing charter schools rather than wait for charter networks to build schools in their area.
Ch. 1 – Charter Inroads in Affluent Communities: Hype or Turning Point? (HFR ’12)
Jeffrey Henig explores the growth of charter school in suburban and affluent areas.