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Direct linkSmith, Nelson – State Education Standard, 2017
Charter schools have thrust state boards of education into new roles. Some directly authorize charters, some do so only on appeal, and some do neither. This article examines a relatively recent addition to this task list: evaluation and oversight of charter authorizers, the entities charged with approving and monitoring charter schools.
Descriptors: Charter Schools, State Boards of Education, Accountability, Board of Education Role
Download full textSmith, Nelson – Progressive Policy Institute, 2005
The Texas example illustrates the challenge faced by today's charter movement: how to meet growing demand while maintaining quality. Its considerable progress is sometimes obscured by headlines about the few schools at the top that generate enormous excitement and world-class achievement and the few at the bottom that use their autonomy for unwise…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Innovation, School Law, Academic Achievement
Herdman, Paul A.; Smith, Nelson; Skinner, Cynthia – 2002
This brief examines critical issues that charter schools and their authorizers will face as states respond to the No Child Left Behind Act's (NCLB) new accountability provisions. The first section provides a context for the NCLB and summarizes its major accountability provisions, discussing timelines for states to put these systems into place and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Accountability, Charter Schools, Disabilities
Wenning, Richard J.; Herdman, Paul A.; Smith, Nelson – 2002
This paper reviews how the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) will operate regarding different groups of students and schools, examining factors that could delay or dilute its guarantee of educational accountability for the academic achievement of all children. It discusses such issues as: what kinds of tests must be used and when, who must…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Charter Schools, Economically Disadvantaged
Smith, Nelson; Herdman, Paul – National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NJ1), 2004
The term "authorizer" conveys an imposing sense of size and authority, but in the world of charter schools, the authorizer is often a small-scale office or, more commonly, a single employee for whom chartering is just one among many responsibilities amidst a large institution like a state or local board of education, university, or private…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Administration, School Effectiveness, Institutional Autonomy
Smith, Nelson – 2003
This paper explores what happens to the old central office when the familiar top-down structure of school governance is replaced by a charter-district system in which independent public schools operate on charters or contracts. For the most part, the paper examines districts that authorize and oversee a significant number of charter schools,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administration, Boards of Education, Central Office Administrators
