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Portfolio Strategy

CRPE founder Paul Hill coined and developed the portfolio strategy model, a problem-solving framework through which education and civic leaders develop a citywide system of high-quality, diverse, autonomous public schools. It emphasizes choice, accountability, and continuous improvement as levers to create more dynamic and equitable public education systems. While portfolio strategy is not currently a central focus of CRPE’s research, it remains an important part of our legacy, and our team continues to examine its relevance to today’s education challenges.

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Shouldn’t Principals Speak for Their Schools? A New Approach

Christine Campbell

A reporter wants to know what has led to big gains in reading scores at an elementary school. Why funds for a choir program have been redirected to math interventions at a middle school.

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Working Together to Manage Enrollment: Key Governance and Operations Decisions

This issue brief explains how three cities—Denver, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C.—are addressing the issues involved with governing cross-sector enrollment systems.

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Stakeholder Engagement for Common Enrollment Systems

This brief provides an introductory look at how leaders can effectively engage stakeholders during the design and implementation of a common enrollment system.

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Wait, Who Chooses My Kid’s School?

Betheny Gross

In many cities, it makes sense for universal enrollment systems to replace existing enrollment processes that are messy, opaque, and at times unfair or even unlawful.

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Shortsighted board action in L.A.

Robin Lake

I was dismayed by news this week that the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) school board failed to renew two Aspire Public Schools charters because these schools are not participating in the district’s special education services (in California, districts provide special education services via what’s known as a SELPA: Special Education Local Area Plan).

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Rethinking the State Role in Education

Paul Hill

States can do a lot more to promote effective schools. But what? Answering this long-neglected question is one of the next frontiers of CRPE’s work.

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What Does It Mean to ‘Engage’ the Public?

Christine Campbell

For district leaders impatient to implement school reforms for students’ sake, the question “How do we engage the community?” can sometimes be another way of saying “How can we get people to support what we’ve already decided to do?” Last week in Houston, CRPE brought together the people driving the portfolio strategy in 26 cities for a meeting on the theme of public engagement and strategy sustainability.

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Coordinating Enrollment Across School Sectors: An Overview of Common Enrollment Systems

This “Spotlight” brief outlines the elements of a successful common enrollment system, and the experiences and outcomes of cities currently using these systems.

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A Tale of Two (Charter) Cities

Robin Lake

I spent the beginning of last week in Detroit, a city that spawned one of the nation’s early charter laws, now home to one of the most unregulated charter sectors I have seen.

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Columbus Children Falling Through the Cracks

Paul Hill

The recent news out of Columbus—that 17 of the 75 local charter schools had closed in the past year—is bad in so many ways.

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