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Direct linkFinn, Chester E., Jr.; Manno, Bruno V.; Wright, Brandon L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
With 25 years of experience, the charter sector has had enough time to experience a host of unanticipated and unresolved problems related to the complex ways in which charter school governance relates to school leadership. The time has come for the sector to revisit some fundamental decisions about how charter schools and networks are governed,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Governance, Educational Administration, Administrator Role
Download full textManno, Bruno V. – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
From 1910 to 1940, a grassroots effort in America called the high school movement led to a "spectacular educational transformation" in this country. Enrollment of 18-year-olds grew from 19 percent to 71 percent, and graduation rates rose from 9 percent to more than 50 percent--lifting the US to the forefront of educational attainment in…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Partnerships in Education, Career Readiness, Curriculum
Peer reviewedFinn, Chester E., Jr.; Manno, Bruno V.; Wright, Brandon L. – Journal of School Choice, 2017
This article probes ways in which the school-choice marketplace as it developed via chartering has not worked as well in practice as many had hoped. It includes reflection on the profoundly different operating principles and theories of action that separate the district and charter sectors in their pure forms. It also offers market-strengthening…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, School Districts, Educational Change
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Manno, Bruno V.; Wright, Brandon L. – Harvard Education Press, 2016
"Charter Schools at the Crossroads" offers a frank and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcomings of the charter movement, and outlines possible directions for the future. Few observers present at the creation of the first charter schools a quarter-century ago could have predicted how rapidly this movement would spread or how…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational History, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
Frumkin, Peter; Manno, Bruno V.; Edgington, Nell – Harvard Education Press, 2011
"The Strategic Management of Charter Schools" addresses the challenges facing such schools by mapping out, in straightforward and highly pragmatic terms, a management framework for them. The first charter school law in the United States was enacted in Minnesota in 1991. In the twenty years since that modest beginning, the movement has burgeoned…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Charter Schools, School Law, Educational Innovation
Manno, Bruno V. – Journal of School Choice, 2010
Few people realize the movement's breadth and the forms in which school choice expansion is manifest. Out of slightly more than 57 million K-12 schoolchildren, almost 29.4 million--nearly 52%--are enrolled in a K-12 school choice option. This article provides an overview of the scope of school choice today and summarizes the political, policy, and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Choice, Barriers, Politics of Education
