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Garnett, Nicole Stelle – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2023
In order to realize all the benefits of parental-choice programs, advocates, policymakers, and participating schools have to pay more attention to implementation challenges, both when designing parental-choice policies and after new programs are enacted. This report discusses both categories of implementation challenges. The first…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Barriers, Parent Attitudes
McShane, Michael Q. – EdChoice, 2023
Crises have a way of shaking up the status quo and creating space for new thinking. When shocked out of their familiarity, people start to ask questions as to why things are the way that they are and brainstorm ways to make them better. Enter entrepreneurs. They are the people who take those ideas that are lying around and attempt to create…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Educational Change, Academic Achievement
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Chu, Lisa; DeArmond, Michael – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2021
There is wide recognition that supporting social-emotional learning (SEL) is a critical task for schools as they emerge from the pandemic, but implementation is challenging and SEL programs can easily turn into isolated and disjointed initiatives. When schools treat SEL as an isolated initiative, implementation can be uneven and difficult to…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Social Emotional Learning, Teaching Methods, Pandemics
Public School Forum of North Carolina, 2022
The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and the Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission (PEPSC) of the State Board of Education are working on a new teacher licensure pathways proposal, Pathways to Excellence for Teaching Professionals (Model). This proposal, if enacted, would restructure the state's system…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, School Districts, Principals, Administrator Attitudes
Office of Inspector General, US Department of Education, 2014
This Annual Plan presents the major initiatives and priorities the U.S. Department of Education (Department) Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to undertake to assist the Department in fulfilling its responsibilities to America's taxpayers and students. The Department continues to face significant challenges in FY 2015 that impact its…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Strategic Planning, Grants, Compliance (Legal)
Mead, Sara – National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NJ1), 2010
Both the charter school and universal pre-K movements have grown substantially during the past 10 years. Nearly 5,000 charter schools now exist in 40 states and the District of Columbia, serving some 1.6 million students--up from 2,300 schools serving 580,000 students only a decade ago. The growth in state pre-kindergarten enrollments has…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Kindergarten, Public Education