Special Needs and Choice Districts
This report focuses on the evidence to date on how students with special needs fare under choice, and promising new ideas that have yet to be tried.
Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success
This final report from the four-year Inside Charter Schools initiative examines how charter schools differentiate themselves from traditional public schools to attract students and families and how they recruit and manage their staff.
BRIEF – Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success
This brief provides a summary of the four-year Inside Charter Schools project’s final report, Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success.
What Have We Learned in 15 Years about Getting High-Quality Charter Schools? Lessons for Washington State
In this one-page brief, Robin Lake summarizes key lessons for creating high-quality charter schools.
Paying for Scale: Results of a Symposium on CMO Finance
In April 2010, the Center on Reinventing Public Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation convened a group of researchers and financial analysts to discuss how to better understand the financing and sustainability of CMOs. This report summarizes the conversation and main themes that emerged from the meeting.
BRIEF – Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement: A Case Study of Ohio
This one-page brief summarizes a working paper that examines the variation in charter school performance in one state to assess one of the key levers of charter school policy: the decision about which types of organizations may authorize charter schools.
New York City’s iZone
In 2010, New York City’s Department of Education created the Innovation Zone to employ cutting edge technology to solve students’ most persistent learning problems. This study analyzes the iZone’s impact so far.
Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement
In this working paper the authors use student data from Ohio to compare the effectiveness of various types of charter school authorizers.
BRIEF – You’re Leaving? Sustainability and Succession in Charter Schools
This brief summarizes the findings and recommendations from a larger report, which finds that many charter schools are unprepared when it comes to leadership turnover.
The Promise of Cafeteria-Style Benefits for Districts and Teachers
This brief describes how a different method of supplying benefits to employees might work for districts: cafeteria plans. While typical school district plans offer a one-size-fits-all package of benefits to employees, cafeteria plans allow employees to customize their benefits within a given cost.
