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Rickles, Jordan; Wang, Jia; Herman, Joan – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2013
With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CRESST conducted a multi-year evaluation of a major school reform project at Alain Leroy Locke High School, historically one of California's lowest performing secondary schools. Beginning in 2007, Locke High School transitioned into a set of smaller, Green Dot Charter High Schools,…
Descriptors: Educational Change, High Schools, Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education
Rogers, John; Lubienski, Chris; Scott, Janelle; Welner, Kevin G. – Teachers College Record, 2015
Background: Purpose: This analysis considers the emergence, evidentiary basis, and potential of parent trigger policies. In particular, we focus on the policy, political and social circumstances in which parent trigger legislation emerged in California, the efficacy of the school improvement levers on which it draws, and the underlying assumptions…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Educational Change, Politics of Education, State Legislation
Hill, Paul T.; Maas, Tricia – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2015
High school redesign is one of the most elusive reform challenges to date. This paper explains why personalized high schools are hard to get and keep in a traditional school district, and shows how they can be made much more broadly available through changes in policy and philanthropic investments. Drawing from examples of successful and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, High Schools, Instructional Leadership, Institutional Autonomy
Danielson, Caroline – Public Policy Institute of California, 2015
These technical appendices are intended to accompany the study, "Low-Income Students and School Meal Programs in California." Two appendices are included. Appendix A provides tables detailing: (1) the variables included in the main models and the datasets(s) used to construct each; (2) observations in each dataset and categorizes them…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Lunch Programs, Nutrition, Enrollment
Stecher, Brian M.; Garet, Michael – RAND Corporation, 2014
On November 19, 2009, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would invest $290 million to support effective teaching as a means to ensure all students receive the education they need to succeed in high school and beyond. The foundation made six-year grants to support four Intensive Partnership for Effective Teaching (IP) sites…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Longitudinal Studies
Barke, Steve – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This doctoral project is a pilot study to assess the effectiveness of a church discipleship co-op designed to convey a biblical worldview to middle and high school students enrolled in charter homeschooling in Southern California. Research by the Nehemiah Institute indicated that 90% of Christian families in the United States send their children…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Secondary Education, Religious Education
Blanton, Rebecca E. – California Research Bureau, 2012
The Legislature mandated the California Research Bureau (CRB) explore known best practices for charter school authorizers and survey California authorizers about their practices and costs. Additionally, the Legislature mandated CRB provide an analysis of current reimbursement for charter school oversight and include suggestions for improving…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Administration, Costs, State Legislation
Ableidinger, Joe; Hassel, Bryan C. – National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NJ1), 2012
This issue brief is part of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers' (NACSA's) "Cyber Series," which addresses issues in policy and practice that relate to authorizing online and blended charter schools. This brief aims to improve authorizer understanding and oversight of blended charter schools, which combine digital…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Blended Learning, Models, Evaluation
Kelly, Andrew P.; Loveless, Tom – American Journal of Education, 2012
This study investigates whether student achievement varies during the institutional life span of charter schools by comparing them to new public schools. The results show that there is little evidence that new public schools struggle with initial start-up issues to the same extent as new charter schools. Even after controlling for school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Evidence, Comparative Analysis, Public Schools
What Works Clearinghouse, 2013
"DreamBox Learning" is a supplemental online mathematics program that provides adaptive instruction for students in grades K-5 and focuses on number and operations, place value, and number sense. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identified one study of "DreamBox Learning" that both falls within the scope of the Elementary…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Control Groups, Experimental Groups, Electronic Learning
Ike, Bon – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In California, graduate-level school leadership degrees and credentialing programs prepare primarily K-12 traditional public school principals (California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2012). The number and diversity of K-12 nontraditional schools in Los Angeles County, predominantly charter schools, have increased. Therefore, unique skills…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Nontraditional Education, School Administration
Dwyer, David C. – Educational Technology, 2013
Well over one million high school students drop out of U.S. high schools each year. The human and financial tolls are startling and cannot be sustained in an era when the country is looking for means to remain globally competitive. What would it take to dramatically reduce the problem? USC's Rossier School of Education helped found an independent…
Descriptors: High Schools, Charter Schools, Urban Schools, Dropout Rate
Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Frankenberg, Erica; Diem, Sarah; Welton, Anjale D. – Journal of School Choice, 2013
The bulk of research on the implementation of school choice policies has focused on how choice has been implemented in urban school systems. As of 2007, however, suburban students comprised more than one fourth (29%) of all students engaging in some form of public school choice in the United States. This article examines the implementation of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Suburban Schools, School Districts
Finkel, Ed – District Administration, 2011
The Synergy Charter Academy, one of three charter schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), used to occupy a cramped church space in south LA. Despite the facilities challenges, its more than 300 K students have generally scored in the top 10% on statewide tests in reading and math over the past seven years. When the district…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Cooperation, School Districts, Cooperative Planning
Farland, Stephanie Medrano – Leadership, 2011
Some areas of charter school oversight are easy to overlook. This article provides a few practical tips for ensuring that legal and moral obligations are met and charter schools are "delivering the goods." Effective charter oversight takes time and diligence. As many districts know, closing or not renewing a charter school can be painful…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Administration, Governance, Educational Finance