Robin Lake, Abigail Winger and Jeff Petty, Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of Washington
May 2002
The University of Washington's Center on Reinventing Public Education recently published this useful hundred-page guide to starting new schools. Funded (in part) by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the guide helps would-be school founders think through their legal options, test their market, assemble a leadership team, follow the crumbs through the political maze, develop the academic program, recruit students, work with parents and more, including such mundane but crucial items as getting liability insurance and managing the office. This will prove a valuable resource for anyone considering the creation of a charter school or similar program. You can obtain a copy by surfing to http://www.aecf.org/publications/data/newschoolshdbk.pdf or http://www.crpe.org/Publications/downloads/report_handbookweb.pdf.
