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.
Making Sense of How Charter Schools Affect School District Finances: A Reporter’s Guide
This guide unpacks how enrollment loss stemming from charter schools may or may not shape districts’ financial situations and provides guidance and resources to journalists.
California Charter Schools: Costs, Benefits, and Impact on School Districts
Three new briefs assess the impact of California charter schools on school districts.
Sustaining Improvement after State Takeovers: Lessons from New Orleans
This report examines how New Orleans education officials have managed the return of nearly all of the city’s public schools to the control of the local elected school board for the first time since the state takeover of public schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
