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Charter Schools and Public School Choice

CRPE’s research examines both the promise and the challenges of charter schools and school choice, with a focus on how they can expand opportunity, drive innovation, and better serve diverse student needs. We study charter schools alongside district schools and other models, highlighting lessons that can inform the broader system. New data and evidence help innovators across the country collaborate, communicate, and develop best practices.

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Evidence Isn’t Enough: Good Policy Needs Good Politics

Ashley Jochim

I’m a researcher at university-based center that prides itself on following the evidence. That means I spend most of my time thinking about “what works.” I’m not alone.

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How Denver Is Working to Improve Its Portfolio of Schools

CRPE recently analyzed Denver’s portfolio of public schools—the curricular themes, instructional approaches, and extra programmatic offerings—as part of a new report (it also looked at New Orleans and Washington, D.C.).

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What if Education Policy Were More Like Astronomy? The Value of ‘Soft Power’

Ashley Jochim

As my family heads down to eastern Oregon today to watch the solar eclipse, I can’t help but think about how different things might be if education policy was akin to astronomy.

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Disability Rights Advocates Are Fighting the Wrong Fight on School Choice

Robin Lake, Sivan Tuchman

Many respected national groups have recently set their sights on school choice as the new battlefront for disability rights. They are anywhere from open to highly skeptical to adamantly opposed to charter schools and private school choice, often aligning with teachers unions to try to block new proposals or to re-regulate existing policies.

  • In The News    

Disability Rights Advocates Are Fighting the Wrong Fight on School Choice

Robin Lake and Sivan Tuchman write in The 74 that disability rights advocates are mistargeting their concerns by fighting school choice.

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Are City Schools Becoming Monolithic? Analyzing the Diversity of Options in Denver, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C.

Betheny Gross, Colleen McCann, Shannon Murtagh, Christine Campbell

CRPE researchers discover distinct school differences in three cities and offer innovative, evidence-based solutions to help urban U.S. districts increase options so that families can find the right fit for their child.

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‘It’s Not My Problem!’ Why Charter Schools and Districts Need to Work Together on the Politics of School Closure

Robin Lake and Alice Opalka write on the importance of collaboration between school districts and charter schools in this piece for Education Next.

  • In The News    

Increasing the Demand for High-Quality Schools in Cleveland

Michael DeArmond, with José Hernández, writes for Education Next about Cleveland’s challenges with the school choice model.

  • In The News    

How a High School Gets Students to Graduation, Against Many Odds

Paul Hill is quoted in this WNYC piece about Broome Street Charter Academy in Manhattan, which uses the community school model.

  • In The News    

For a Truly Effective School Choice System, Have High-Quality Options in Every Neighborhood

Betheny Gross writes in The 74 that school choice works best when there are high-quality options everywhere in the city.

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