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Commentary
5.26.2017
Charter Schools

Join us for an important panel discussion: New research on interdistrict open enrollment

Ohio Education Gadfly

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute is releasing a first-of-its-kind statewide analysis of interdistrict open enrollment. Using anonymous student-level data, Ohio State University professor Stéphane Lavertu and Deven Carlson of the University of Oklahoma examined the background characteristics of open enrollees along with their academic outcomes as gauged by state exams and graduation rates.

Podcast
5.24.2017
Charter Schools

Charters and vouchers: Two peas in a pod

On this week's podcast, Mike Petrilli, Jason Crye, and Alyssa Schwenk discuss how to win charter supporters over to the cause of school vouchers. During the Research Minute, David Griffith examines how No Child Left Behind influenced student behavior.

Report
4.18.2017
Charter Schools

Three Signs That a Proposed Charter School Is at Risk of Failing

Anna Nicotera, David A. Stuit

It’s well established that some charter schools do far better than others at educating their students. This variability has profound implications for the children who attend those schools. Yet painful experience shows that rebooting or closing a low-performing school is a drawn-out and excruciating process.

Commentary
4.10.2017
Charter Schools

Your chance to stand up for school choice

Ohio Education Gadfly

Are you a school choice supporter or just interested in learning more about this issue that is gaining national prominence? Ohio parents, students, schools, and advocates will be holding a rally on Tuesday, May 2, 2017, at 11 a.m. on the steps of the Ohio Statehouse. And you’re invited to attend.

Undefined
4.5.2017
Charter Schools

Charters come to the Bluegrass State

On this week's podcast, Kentucky State Senator Mike Wilson joins Mike Petrilli and Alyssa Schwenk to discuss charter schools in the Bluegrass State, which recently passed its first charter law. During the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines efforts to improve content knowledge and comprehension for English language learners.

Report
3.30.2017
ESSA, Charter Schools, Governance

Leveraging ESSA to Support Quality-School Growth

Nelson Smith, Brandon L. Wright

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, the federal School Improvement Grants program is gone, but the goal of school improvement remains. States must now use seven percent of their Title I allocation for these efforts, but are no longer constrained by a prescribed menu of intervention options.

Commentary
3.21.2017
Charter Schools

Cracking down on e-schools: What’s with the double standard?

Jamie Davies O'Leary

E-schools, a.k.a. virtual charter schools, have been so thoroughly mired in controversy that they’ve become radioactive in most education discussions. Or in most discussions, period. The current dispute in Ohio is largely technical and centers on the extent to which e-schools provide learning opportunities to students rather than merely offering them.

Commentary
2.9.2017
Charter Schools

Foreword: Pathway to Success – Citizens Leadership Academy

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Citizens Leadership Academy (CLA) is preparing Cleveland middle schoolers for success in high school, college, and life—and not just academically. CLA, whose population is 79 percent economically disadvantaged and made up almost entirely of students of color, is second among all public schools in the city on student growth.

Commentary
1.30.2017
Charter Schools

Turnarounds rarely work; close dysfunctional schools instead

Aaron Churchill

“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” There's a lot of truth in that cliché, but it doesn't seem to apply to education. When it comes to chronically low-performing schools, in many cases, the better – and more courageous – course is to “quit” and close a school that is simply beyond repair.

Commentary
1.30.2017
Charter Schools

Good charters are good choices: Farah’s story (Columbus Collegiate Academy)

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Parents make choices about their child’s schooling based on a variety of factors: location, safety, convenience, academics, extracurriculars, support services, and more. Many families choose their school by moving to the neighborhood of their preference, thus exercising “choice” when making homeownership decisions.

Commentary
1.25.2017
Charter Schools

2017 National School Choice Poll

Jessica Poiner

The American Federation for Children (AFC) recently released its third annual poll on school choice. The national poll surveyed just over 1,000 likely November 2018 voters early this January via phone calls.

Commentary
12.12.2016
Charter Schools

Ohio’s new charter operator report cards have room to improve

Jamie Davies O'Leary

Ohio’s charter school reform discussions have mostly focused on sponsors—the entities responsible for providing charter school oversight. Overlooked are the important changes in Ohio’s charter reform law (House Bill 2) around operators.

Commentary
11.28.2016
Charter Schools

Foreword – 2016 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report

Kathryn Mullen

It would be an understatement to say that the 2015–16 school year was one of transition. Indeed, over the past twelve months, we lived through the implementation of the third state assessment in three years, the rollout of Ohio’s revised sponsor evaluation, and the introduction of a new state superintendent at the Ohio Department of Education (ODE).

Commentary
11.10.2016
Charter Schools

Foreword: Pathway to Success – KIPP Columbus takes seriously its mission to send kids to and through college

Jamie Davies O'Leary

KIPP Columbus achieves extraordinary outcomes for its students, predominantly students in poverty and students of color—a fact worth celebrating by itself. In 2015-16 in Ohio’s Urban Eight cities, KIPP Columbus was in the top five percent of all schools (district and charter) on student growth and among the very best (top 3 percent) in Columbus.

Commentary
11.4.2016
Charter Schools

Introducing Purdue Polytechnic High School

Jeff Murray

Hopes are high for a new kind of school in Indianapolis. Purdue Polytechnic High School will open in the 2017-18 school year, admitting its first class of 150 ninth graders on the near Eastside.

Book
10.25.2016
Charter Schools

Charter Schools at the Crossroads: Predicaments, Paradoxes, Possibilities

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Bruno V. Manno, Brandon L. Wright

Over the past quarter-century, charter schools have gone from an upstart education experiment to a prominent, promising, and disruptive innovation in K–12 education. Indeed, few observers present at the creation of the first charter schools could have predicted how rapidly this movement would spread or how thoroughly it would come to dominate the education-reform agenda.

Commentary
10.18.2016
Charter Schools

Ohio’s sponsor evaluations: Take two

Kathryn Mullen

The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) recently released the results of its revised sponsor evaluation, including new ratings for all of the state’s charter-school sponsors.

Report
9.29.2016
Charter Schools, Governance

Charter School Boards in the Nation's Capital

Juliet Squire, Allison Crean Davis

Tens of thousands of individuals across the United States volunteer their time, energy, and expertise as members of charter school boards. Yet as the charter sector has grown, we’ve learned remarkably little about these individuals who make key operational decisions about their schools and have legal and moral responsibilities for the education of children in their communities.

Commentary
9.26.2016
Charter Schools

Charter school authorizing in post-Katrina New Orleans

Twenty-five years into the American charter school movement there remains little research on the impact of charter authorizers, yet these entities are responsible for key decisions in the lives of charter schools, including whether they can open, and when they must close.

Commentary
9.19.2016
Charter Schools

How to solve the school closure conundrum

Jessica Poiner

Politicians are wise to pay attention to public opinion data, but they are also responsible for crafting sound policies based on research and evidence.

Undefined
9.14.2016
Charter Schools

Trump, Choice, and Discipline

On this week’s podcast, Robert Pondiscio, Brandon Wright, and David Griffith discuss Donald Trump’s school choice proposal and the national debate over school discipline. During the research minute, Amber Northern examines the effect of the charter school authorization process on school quality.