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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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What Have We Learned in 15 Years about Getting High-Quality Charter Schools? Lessons for Washington State

Robin Lake

In this one-page brief, Robin Lake summarizes key lessons for creating high-quality charter schools.

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Paying for Scale: Results of a Symposium on CMO Finance

Robin Lake, Allison Demeritt

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.

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BRIEF – Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement: A Case Study of Ohio

Brian Gill, Kaitlin Obenauf, Ron Zimmer

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.

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Charter School Authorizers and Student Achievement

Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, Kaitlin Obenauf

In this working paper the authors use student data from Ohio to compare the effectiveness of various types of charter school authorizers.

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BRIEF – You’re Leaving? Sustainability and Succession in Charter Schools

Christine Campbell

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.

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You’re Leaving? Sustainability and Succession in Charter Schools

Christine Campbell

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.

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Parallel Patterns: Teacher Attrition in Charter vs. District Schools

Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond

This study explores the question of teacher turnover in charter schools by surveying newly hired teachers from both traditional and charter schools.

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BRIEF – Teacher Attrition in Charter vs. District Schools

Betheny Gross, Michael DeArmond

This policy brief summarizes an Inside Charter Schools study on the nature of teacher turnover in charter schools.

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Strategic Communications for Portfolio School District Reform

Sam Sperry

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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BRIEF – Charter Management Organizations: Innovations, Opportunities, and Challenges

Robin Lake, Melissa Bowen, Allison Demeritt, Paul Hill

This brief summarizes the major findings from the National Study of Charter Management Organization (CMO) Effectiveness: Report on Interim Findings.

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