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Leadership to Date, Leadership Tomorrow: A Review of Data on Charter School Directors

This report reviews the available data to describe the current corps of charter school leaders: how they are prepared, how they experience their work, and the institutional strategies in place to sustain and transition leadership....

Beyond the Battle Lines: Lessons From New York’s Charter Caps Fight

The report examines lessons from New York’s experience with charter caps politics and provides policy considerations relevant to the growing number of states in which charter schools are reaching their legislated limit.

Resource Allocation in Traditional and Reform-Oriented Collective Bargaining Agreements

When school boards enter contracts with teachers unions, they determine the use of nearly half of all the funds available to public education. In this paper Julia Koppich looks at an important source of resource...

Identifying and Replicating the “DNA” of Successful Charter Schools: Lessons from the Private Sector

This brief begins with a look at the main problems faced by organizations attempting to replicate charter schools at scale, followed by a summary of lessons from the for-profit and nonprofit sectors about the process...

A New Approach to the Cost of Teacher Turnover

This paper explores ways districts can reduce the costs (in terms of lost school productivity and lost training investments) of teacher turnover.

Incentive-Based Financing of Schools

This report analyzes the incentives under which public school teachers and leaders work. It concludes that there are few rewards for producing high levels of student achievement and many rewards for work that does not...

Not for the Timid: Breaking Down Barriers, Creating Breakthrough High Schools in Ohio

This report presents the results of an analysis of perceived barriers to high school redesign and real impediments embedded in federal and state statutes and regulations, as well as in local district policies in the...

Conditions for Student Success: The Cycle of Continuous Instructional Improvement

This paper explores how schools can seek “continuous improvement.”

School Safety in Urban Charter and Traditional Public Schools

Analyzing data from the 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), this working paper finds that charter schools consistently reported significantly fewer issues with threats to persons or property and fewer behavioral problems than traditional public...

Inside Charter Schools: A Systematic Look at Our Nation’s Charter Schools

This is the introductory report from the “Inside Charter Schools” initiative, a multi-year, federally funded study of the people and work of charter schools.