Chicago Teacher Salaries in the Regional Chicago Context
This Rapid Response brief looks at how Chicago teacher salaries compare in regional and national contexts.
Q&A on the Chicago Teachers Contract Math
This Rapid Response brief examines the real numbers on the Chicago teachers contract costs.
Modernizing the State Education Agency: Different Paths Toward Performance Management
This project shows how eight state education agencies have reshaped their organizations to address the challenges of improving their lowest-performing schools. By focusing on states at the forefront of the turnaround effort, CRPE researchers hope to identify promising paths that SEAs can follow as they begin to reorient their missions around performance management.
BRIEF – Principal Concerns: Leadership Data and Strategies for States
This brief summarizes a more detailed report that offers new tools to help state policymakers diagnose and address their principal workforce needs.
Principal Concerns: Leadership Data and Strategies for States
This report offers a set of powerful new tools to help state policymakers diagnose their principal workforce needs and develop comprehensive strategies to address them.
Logic Model: How Education Challenges Add Up to 7 Portfolio Components
This logic model outlines the premises, strategy principles, actions, and reform elements of the Portfolio School District model.
BRIEF – Managing Talent for School Coherence: Learning from Charter Management Organizations
This brief summarizes a larger report that looks at how CMOs manage teacher talent.
Managing Talent for School Coherence: Learning from Charter Management Organizations
This report examines how charter management organizations recruit, hire, and develop teachers, and how they manage teacher performance.
Baltimore and the Portfolio School District Strategy
This case study of the implementation of Baltimore City Public Schools’ portfolio strategy explores how the district’s reform work aligns with CRPE’s definition of the portfolio strategy and how it compares to the approaches taken in other districts.
The Evolution of School Support Networks in New York City
In this working paper, Eric Nadelstern discusses New York City’s efforts to change the central office and create a system of support organizations to oversee networks of autonomous schools.