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Time for Charters to Lead on Special Education

Last week I jumped all over Andy Smarick on Twitter for suggesting that practices like the DC Public Charter School Board’s Secret Shopper program (where staff pretend to be parents searching for a school for...

Honoring Our Contract: D.C.’s Effort to Ensure Equity in Public Education

When charter schools were first introduced as an alternative to the traditional school system, the promise was that high levels of autonomy and rigorous accountability would allow schools to produce exceptional results for the students...

The Portfolio Strategy CEO: The Job and How to Prepare for It

This primer for portfolio strategy leaders identifies the main challenges of the job and how to approach them.

Making Sense of Charter School Studies: A Reporter’s Guide

This guide educates the media and decision-makers about what questions to ask regarding charter school research, and provides them with information about the limits of any new research.

Accountability and the Federal Role: A Third Way on ESEA

In this paper, two different “camps” on school reform find common ground on how to improve educational accountability.

Let’s Kill Innovation

In the past couple of years I’ve probably used the word “innovation” thousands of times and read or heard it thousands of times more. Naturally. I worked in an Office of Innovation (inside the Division...

What We Mean When We Talk About School Choice

Earlier this month, CRPE brought together 180 district and charter leaders from 30 cities around the country in Memphis for a meeting on school choice: “Good Options and Choices for All Families” was the theme,...

“That’s Not How We Do Things”: Cui Bono Redux

To a certain kind of mind, the status quo has no risks and no costs. The “way we do things” is seen as, if not the best of all possible worlds, then at least a...

Let’s Not Poke Our Own Eyes Out

Lamar Alexander, the new head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has set off the long-delayed reauthorization process for ESEA. Testing is taking center stage in the debate. There is no shortage...

Cui Bono: Conflicts of Interest Are in the Eyes of the Beholder

Everything that schools do, they buy, one way or another. Whether it’s professional development, curricula and tests, or pencils, hamburger, and software, the choice is the same: either spend money on salaries and materials to...