Current Research – Center on Reinventing Public Education

Ch. 4 – Making Choice Work for Students With Special Needs (HFR ’11)

In this chapter Robin Lake and Betheny Gross argue that charter schools have a mixed track record on ensuring that students with special needs have effective options, but the reasons are complex, and the solutions...

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

This report from the National Study of CMO Effectiveness provides key findings from the study on CMO practices, impacts, and the relationships between them. The updated report also examines longer-term impacts of CMOs on high...

Are Charter School Unions Worth the Bargain?

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...

BRIEF – Charter Schools and Achievement

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.