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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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Ch. 3 – Equal Access: Creating Fair and Transparent Assignment Systems (HFR ’11)

Tom DeWire

In this chapter, Tom DeWire of Baltimore Public schools draws on the experience of choice enrollment and assignment plans in Baltimore, New York, and Boston to illustrate the important questions that districts need to ask when designing such systems.

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Ch. 2 – Mastering Change: When Charter Schools and District Schools Embrace Strategic Partnership (HFR ’11)

Parker Baxter, Elizabeth Cooley Nelson

This chapter examines factors that are driving districts to collaborate with charters, what those collaborations look like, and the politics both sides must deal with.

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Ch. 1 – Assessing the Charter School Landscape (HFR ’11)

Betheny Gross, Melissa Bowen

This chapter offers an overview of emerging trends in the charter school landscape.

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Conclusion – Will District Collaboration Neuter or Propel the Charter School Movement? (HFR ’11)

Robin Lake

In this chapter Robin Lake discusses the charter school side of the emerging trend toward district/charter school collaboration.

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Overview – Consorting With the Enemy: When Charter Schools and District Schools Work Together (HFR ’11)

Robin Lake

This overview of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charters Schools in 2011 introduces the key areas explored in this year’s volume.

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Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2011

Robin Lake, Betheny Gross

The 6th annual edition of Hopes, Fears, & Reality provides a clear roadmap for school districts and charter schools interested in working together to improve education options.

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Charter-School Management Organizations: Diverse Strategies and Diverse Student Impacts

Joshua Furgeson, Brian Gill, Joshua Haimson, Moira McCullough, Ira Nichols-Barrer

This report from the National Study of CMO Effectiveness provides key findings from the study on CMO practices, impacts, and the relationships between them.

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Are Charter School Unions Worth the Bargain?

Mitch Price

This study of charter school unionization compared charter school collective bargaining agreements with traditional district contracts and found that, while the new contracts innovate in many ways, they could go much further given the opportunity to create agreements from scratch.

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BRIEF – Charter Schools and Achievement

Julian Betts, Y. Emily Tang

This brief summarizes findings from The Effect of Charter Schools on Student Achievement: a Meta-Analysis of the Literature, a detailed assessment of the literature on student achievement in charter schools.

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The 7 Components of a Portfolio Strategy

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