This brief provides a summary of the four-year Inside Charter Schools project’s final report, Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success.
School choice is increasingly the new normal in urban education. But in cities with multiple public school options, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families, whether they choose a charter or district school? To answer this question, CRPE has been studying the opportunities and challenges in “high-choice” cities. We have interviewed civic and education leaders and surveyed parents to identify challenges like uneven school quality and lack of transportation. We’ve also studied ways cities can overcome barriers, such as unified enrollment and common accountability systems, to learn what works and what needs to be refined.
Charter schools offer the potential to create high-performing public schools in districts typically plagued by poor student outcomes. Too often, however, the charter school debate is marred by biased research and polemics. Like all important reform efforts, credible research and analysis must accompany innovation. To assess whether charter schools are fulfilling their mission, we rigorously evaluate their performance, costs, and ability to address unique student needs. New data and evidence help innovators across the country collaborate, communicate, and develop best practices.
This brief provides a summary of the four-year Inside Charter Schools project’s final report, Inside Charter Schools: Unlocking Doors to Student Success.
In this one-page brief, Robin Lake summarizes key lessons for creating high-quality charter schools.
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...
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...
In this working paper the authors use student data from Ohio to compare the effectiveness of various types of charter school authorizers.
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.
This report, part of a four-year study of charter school teachers and leaders, finds that many charter schools are unprepared when it comes to leadership turnover.
This study explores the question of teacher turnover in charter schools by surveying newly hired teachers from both traditional and charter schools.
This policy brief summarizes an Inside Charter Schools study on the nature of teacher turnover in charter schools.
This paper, one of a series of papers designed to assist leaders in portfolio district reform efforts, argues that effective, strategic communications policies and practices are a key element of successful portfolio reform.
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