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This report summarizes a meeting of leaders from charter management organizations, school districts, and foundations to address the question of charter expansion and provides concrete recommendations for those interested in creating a more hospitable environment...

This white paper from the Charter School Achievement Consensus Panel examines the existing research on student achievement in charter schools and details how future research could be improved.

This paper gives an advance report on the results of studies in the Doing School Choice Right project.

Too many charter school authorizers aren’t fulfilling their responsibilities in providing adequate oversight for charter schools. This white paper examines the causes and consequences of poor authorizing and proposes how the problem might be fixed....

This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 provides overview data of American charter schools based on surveys of state agencies and state charter associations.

This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 provides a fresh perspective on the controversy over the academic performance of charter schools, concluding that the results of...

This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 identifies philosophical differences within the charter community and reviews the challenges of scaling up high performing charter schools.

This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 extracts from California’s experience of the sudden closure of California Charter Academy to suggest how charter authorizers and school...