Lessons from Remote Learning in Six School Systems

Charter Schools and Public School Choice
October 2020

Since schools closed in March 2020, CRPE has tracked a sample of school districts and charter networks as they tried to reach students and provide instruction. This report looks more deeply into a smaller number of districts and charter management organizations (CMOs), hoping to understand why they took particular approaches to remote learning and how their experiences last spring affected their plans for the fall.

We present a series of case studies based on our dives into big-city districts (Baltimore City Public Schools and Chicago Public Schools), a large inner suburb (Aurora Public Schools), a rural district (Roaring Fork School District), and two CMOs working in urban areas (Green Dot Public Schools and LEARN Charter Schools).

Read the individual case studies:

Aurora Public Schools

Baltimore City Public Schools

Chicago Public Schools

Green Dot Public Schools California

LEARN Charter Schools

Roaring Fork School District

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