Charter Schools

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Report
6.5.2003
Charter Schools

Charter School Authorizing: Are States Making the Grade?

Rebecca Gau, Louann Bierlein Palmer

This new report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute is the first significant study of the organizations that authorize charter schools. The report examines 23 states and the District of Columbia to determine how supportive they are of charter schools, how good a job their authorizers are doing, and how policy makers could strengthen their states' charter programs.

Report
9.1.2002
Charter Schools

The Approval Barrier to Suburban Charter Schools

Pushpam Jain

Why haven't charter schools taken hold in suburban areas in most states? In this report, Pushpam Jain takes a close look at three states with high proportions of charter schools in the suburbs to see how they managed to introduce charter schools, and then compares them to one state with only a few charter schools to see what is blocking the spread of charters there. His conclusion: if a state sets up a system for authorizing charter schools where the only authorizing body doesn't want charter schools, there won't be many charter schools!

Report
12.1.2001
Charter Schools

Autonomy and Innovation: How Do Massachusetts Charter School Principals Use Their Freedom?

Bill Triant

Charter schools grant significant autonomy to their principals, but do their principals make decisions that would not be possible in ordinary schools? Are they creating schools that are truly different from (and potentially better than) regular district schools? For this report, Bill Triant conducted extended interviews with eight charter school principals in Massachusetts on five dimensions of school operations (teacher hiring, budgetary control, instruction and curriculum, organizational design, and accountability) to shed light on how they use their autonomy. He finds that when charter school principals are given the opportunity to innovate, they do so.

Report
8.1.2001
Charter Schools, Teachers & School Leaders

Personnel Policy in Charter Schools

Dale Ballou, Michael Podgursky

When schools are held accountable for results and freed from red tape governing personnel decisions, they take advantage of their freedom by adopting innovative strategies for hiring and rewarding teachers, according to this new report by economists Michael Podgursky and Dale Ballou. This study is based on a survey administered to a random sample of 132 public charter schools that have been operating for at least three years.

Report
10.1.1999
Charter Schools

Why Charter Schools? The Princeton Story

Chiara R. Nappi

Nappi tells the engaging story of how Princeton parents tried to change 'the system' from within but had to resort to starting a charter school in order to raise academic standards.