This logic model outlines the premises, strategy principles, actions, and reform elements of the Portfolio School District model.
This collection encompasses much of CRPE’s foundational research, including school finance and portfolio strategy. While our current focus is in other areas of research, we believe that our past work is still highly relevant today. Further, should the field call for new explorations of these topics, we always leave open the possibility of reviving these research areas.
This logic model outlines the premises, strategy principles, actions, and reform elements of the Portfolio School District model.
In this working paper, Eric Nadelstern discusses New York City’s efforts to change the central office and create a system of support organizations to oversee networks of autonomous schools.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded a multi-year initiative to support the design and implementation of district-charter collaboration compacts. Figuring out how to create effective cross-sector governance structures has been challenging in some...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded a multi-year initiative to support the design and implementation of district-charter collaboration compacts. In February 2012, 15 compact cities submitted district-charter collaboration concept papers to the Gates...
In 2009, the federal government committed over $3 billion to help states and districts turn around their worst-performing schools. This report looks at the results of a field study of the first-year implementation of those...
This working paper series examines the politics of portfolio school district reform, with a primary focus on the issues surrounding high school closures.
In January 2012, over 100 district and charter leaders gathered in New Orleans for the sixth Portfolio School District Network meeting. John White, new state superintendent of Louisiana, launched the meeting with the idea of...
District/Charter Collaboration: The promise, the peril In twenty or more major cities, charter schools and districts are laying down arms and coming to the table to figure out how to share resources and responsibility to...
In this chapter Parker Baxter argues that by reimagining the distribution of funding, facilities, and other district assets without regard to whether a school is a district school or a charter school, districts can strike...
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.
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