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Making Room for What Matters: Innovative School Leaders Want Accountability, but With a Lighter Footprint

Chelsea Waite, David Nitkin, Janette Avelar

Across the country, school leaders are reimagining how students learn—designing models that are more engaging, effective, and connected to the world students are entering. But many say that today’s state accountability systems, while important for transparency and rigor, can make it harder to innovate. This report from the Canopy Project explores what 186 innovative school leaders say about how accountability systems affect their work and what they hope to see in the future.

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Fulfilling the Promise of School Choice by Building More Effective Supports for Families

Ashley Jochim, Georgia Heyward, Betheny Gross

This report focuses on the work of DC School Reform Now. Since 2011, the organization has focused on making school choice work for families in Wards 7 and 8, two underserved areas of the nation’s capital.

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Schools Lead the Way but the System Must Change: Rethinking Career and Technical Education

Georgia Heyward

CRPE has identified 32 programs around the country that represent the variety of efforts being used to reinvent career and technical education.

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Student Mobility in Kansas City

Michael DeArmond, Alice Opalka, Patrick Denice

This brief examines student mobility in Kansas City Public Schools.

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Making Sense of How Charter Schools Affect School District Finances: A Reporter’s Guide

This guide unpacks how enrollment loss stemming from charter schools may or may not shape districts’ financial situations and provides guidance and resources to journalists.

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California Charter Schools: Costs, Benefits, and Impact on School Districts

Robin Lake, Ashley Jochim, Paul Hill, Sivan Tuchman

Three new briefs assess the impact of California charter schools on school districts.

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Sustaining Improvement after State Takeovers: Lessons from New Orleans

Ashley Jochim, Travis Pillow

This report examines how New Orleans education officials have managed the return of nearly all of the city’s public schools to the control of the local elected school board for the first time since the state takeover of public schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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