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Charter performance in Ohio, Part 1: The Economist calls out Ohio charters
Ohio charters are gaining an international reputation—but not for the best of reasons.
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Charter performance in Ohio, Part 2: How do charters fare? Depends on the standard
Have Cleveland’s charters “done badly?” Depends on your standard.
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Fulfilling the Compact: Building a Breakthrough, Results- Driven Public Charter School Sector
The charter sector has come a long way and its successes are worth celebrating, yet as this report demonstrates multiple challenges still remain
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Private school choice AND quality control
Louisiana has shown us that it’s possible to offer private-school choice and control for quality in a way that doesn’t cramp what makes a private school unique.
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An Accident of History: Breaking the District Monopoly on Public School Facilities
It’s time for some trust-busting
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How do charters do? Depends on the standard
It matters to whom charters are compared
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Voucher transparency in the Hoosier State
States like Louisiana could learn a lesson from Indiana's approach to reporting performance.
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To whom do the schools belong?
Charter schools may be celebrating twenty years of existence, but the milestone gets most of them no closer to the surplus classroom space and facility financing controlled by local school boards.
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A single-sex school for Prince Hal
One more valuable option for students and parents
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Friedman Foundation calls for research proposals
The folks at the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice have put out a call for research proposals that explore the effects that choice and competition have on K-12 education.
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The Economist calls out Ohio charters
Ohio charters have earned a global reputation.
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An unfair contest: charter school athletics
Despite persistent hostility to charter school expansion in most states, there remains one aspect of charter schooling that fails to get the attention it deserves: athletics.
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Unchecked and unbalanced in North Carolina
Lazy governance hurts charter innovation.
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Time to focus on the other half of the charter-authorizer marriage
What is the nature of the relationship between a charter school authorizer and a charter school board?
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Education gets its day in court
Healthcare stole the show, but don’t forget that the Supreme Court handed down a decision this session with education implications.
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Improving Charter School Accountability: The Challenge of Closing Failing Schools
Charter authorizers: No longer taken for granted
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Authorizers matter, in Ohio and across the nation
Terry Ryan on the importance of charter authorizers
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A different case for social justice in special education
There has been a lot of hand-wringing in the last week about whether charter schools are doing enough to enroll students with disabilities. But are we looking closely at who is among the learning disabled?
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Highlights from Fordham-sponsored charter schools (2011-12)
A look back at Fordham sponsored schools for the 2011-12 school year
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Managing Talent for School Coherence: Learning from Charter Management Organizations
For almost five years now, the Center for Reinventing Public Education and Mathematica have teamed up to assess the
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Evaluation of Denver’s SchoolChoice Process for the 2011-2012 School Year
Demand for a school was highly correlated with its quality. Baking a successful school-choice soufflé is challenging. The ingredients are hard to come by: Schools must be high performing while simultaneously offering options to a diverse parent base. And the recipe is fussy: Navigating the system should be easy and fair. There can be no inherent incentives to game the system.
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GAO and George Miller don’t understand how special education works
No public school serves all disabilities
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Ending Ohio’s charter-district feud
Children across Ohio will benefit if charters and school districts can end their feud and find ways to maximize resources across their schools.
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Highlights from Fordham-sponsored charter schools (2011-12)
As the 2011-12 school year ends, we want to highlight the unique events and successes that happened in our schools this year.
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The Greenfield School Revolution and School Choice
The report challenges the choice system as it currently stands, saying that existing school choice programs, while delivering slightly better outcomes, are not challenging the public school sector as they need to be.
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Louisiana should consider a common-sense approach to accountability
A few suggestions for voucher accountability