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What States Can Do to Promote District-Charter Collaboration

This paper explores opportunities for state education agencies to leverage their unique assets to advance district-charter collaboration..

Grappling With Discipline in Autonomous Schools: New Approaches From D.C. and New Orleans

This report profiles leading efforts by two cities to bring consistency and fairness to discipline practices in both district and charter schools.

Beyond Quotas: Time for Real Remedies on Harsh Discipline that Excludes Students

Charter schools have come under fire recently around student discipline. As someone who spent a decade working with children at the tragic end of the school-to-prison pipeline, I’m deeply concerned about the real-world ramifications of...

Rumors of Death Premature: Portfolio Management Still Alive and Kicking in New Orleans

Can the portfolio strategy in New Orleans still fog a mirror, or is it dead as Jay Greene has just announced? It looks pretty lively, with all public school kids in charter schools and results...

Waive the Waivers

This piece was originally published as part of Fordham’s 2016 Wonkathon in response to the question: What are the “sleeper provisions” of ESSA that might encourage the further expansion of parental choice, at least if...

Improving Authorizing to Advance District-Charter Collaboration

District-charter collaboration can be a valuable tool for both sides, not to mention for students and families. Collaboration can result in important work on issues like whether charter schools can use district buildings, how to...

Survey Says: Charter Authorizers Have Work to Do on Special Education

Authorizers have an essential role to play in ensuring that charter schools follow all special education laws and produce great results for children with disabilities. For that reason, I found some of the National Association...

Principals Are Not at the Top of States’ Talent Agenda—But They Should Be

Teachers have been at the center of most states’ talent discussions to date. Although principals play a critical role in virtually all school-improvement reform efforts, most states lack a coherent school leadership strategy. This is...

Tough Sledding Ahead as NOLA Schools Return to Local Control

The big question about a portfolio school system—where all schools operate under strong performance and equity oversight, but are free to innovate and provide coherent instruction without fear of constant re-regulation—is whether that vision can...

Following the Money in Personalized Learning

Reorganizing time, talent, technology, and physical space to support personalized learning takes money, planning, and time. Dozens of philanthropies, new support organizations, and policy groups are dedicated to helping schools implement this model. To date,...