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Castillo-Alves, Blanca A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
In the current research, there are missing voices of traditional administrators who transitioned into charter administration. This qualitative study included eight participants who are or were administrators in a large urban district in California with the purpose of understanding their experiences and differences in terms of how they learned to…
Descriptors: Administrators, Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, Qualitative Research
Wolfe, Christy; Sheridan-McIver, Fiona – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2018
Public charter schools present tremendous opportunities to increase the access of Native students to high-quality schools. Understanding current growth and the location of schools serving Native students is an important first step in the larger policy discussion on Native education and charter schools. This brief provides the latest data available…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, American Indian Students, Alaska Natives, Hawaiians
Langhorne, Emily – Progressive Policy Institute, 2019
Improving public education has long been a cornerstone of the Democratic platform. Because progressives understand that access to a quality education is the gateway to a better life, their decades-long struggle to promote equal rights and opportunity for all Americans has been deeply tied to their struggle to create an effective public school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Equal Education, Public Schools, Institutional Autonomy
Reed, Sherrie; Rose, Heather – Journal of School Choice, 2018
Recent advocacy and legislation across states calls for stricter accountability measures and closure of low-performing charter schools. As charter schools try to meet the multiple accountability standards they face from federal, state, local authorities, and their own associations, it is important to understand how these numerous frameworks…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
What Works Clearinghouse, 2018
The "Knowledge Is Power Program" ("KIPP") is a nonprofit network of more than 200 public charter schools educating early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school students. The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) identified four studies of "KIPP" that fall within the scope of the Charter Schools topic area and meet…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Intervention, Charter Schools, Mathematics Achievement
National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, 2018
A Toolkit of Emerging Best Practices and Opportunities for Charter Support Organizations Approximately 6.4 million students--roughly 13 percent of the student population between ages 6-21--receive special education and related services in public schools every year. While students identified as eligible for special education require supports and…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Charter Schools, Special Education, Students with Disabilities
Wohlstetter, Priscilla; Buck, Brandon – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
This paper presents findings from a yearlong exploratory mixed-methods research study that investigates a national sample of six (6) intentionally diverse charter organizations. Intentionally diverse charter schools work against national public schooling trends to deliberately promote socioeconomically and racially integrated schooling spaces.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Policy, Student Diversity, Student Recruitment
Hedges, Samantha; Ruddy, Anne-Maree; Boyland, Lori; Swensson, Jeff; Kennedy, Jenna – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2020
The authors drew upon state policy documents and other public sources to review licensure requirements for charter school principals. The results indicate that few states have adopted licensure requirements for charter school principals compared with traditional public school principals, and many exempt charter school principals from licensure…
Descriptors: Principals, State Policy, Administrator Education, Administrator Qualifications
Pandya, Jessica Zacher; Mills, Kathy A. – Language and Education, 2019
While humour and laughter create conditions that are conducive for learning, different forms of children's humour have been given little attention in research on digital media, literacy learning, and multimodal design. Applying a Bakhtinian lens, we analyse carnivalesque videos created by elementary students as part of the formal curriculum. We…
Descriptors: Humor, Films, Learning Processes, Literacy
Office of English Language Acquisition, US Department of Education, 2015
The Office of English Language Acquisition (OELA) has synthesized key data on English learners (ELs) into two-page PDF sheets, by topic, with graphics, plus key contacts. The topics for this report on English Learners (ELs) and charter schools include: (1) Number of Charter Schools, by State, Including DC: SY 2011-12; (2) Number of ELs in Charter…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Charter Schools, Geographic Location, School Districts
Hahnel, Carrie; Marchitello, Max – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2023
Enrollment in California public schools has been declining and is projected to fall even more steeply during the next decade. Because funding for school districts is largely based on average daily attendance rates, a decline in enrollment results in a loss of funding. To address budget shortfalls and align services with student counts, many…
Descriptors: Enrollment Trends, School Closing, Declining Enrollment, Equal Education
Epps, Sucari – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This quantitative study investigated the learning outcomes of students with disabilities in comparison to their non-disabled peers in a TK-12th grade school that offers a sixth-twelfth grade virtual public charter school program that currently serves students in the state of California. No differences were found between groups indicating…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Outcomes of Education, Disabilities
Jenna L. Canillas – Thresholds in Education, 2021
This study reviews orientations toward educating multilingual students with a focus on recent policies and initiatives in California. It includes data and findings from a study investigating the linguistic and cultural resources that English learners bring to school as funds of identity. The research site was a public elementary school in an urban…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Students, Educational Policy, Linguistics
Wertheimer, Marley – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2018
The life span of Silver Oak High School, a public charter Montessori Secondary program located in Hayward, California, can be likened to Montessori's planes of development, which span the years from birth to age 24. Montessori educational practice pays special attention to the evolving needs of the individual within each plane of development.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Montessori Method
Lake, Robin; Cobb, Trey; Sharma, Roohi; Opalka, Alice – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2018
Since the first charter school law passed in 1991, U.S. charter schools have enjoyed steady and relatively rapid growth, now serving more than three million students nationally. In more than 58 cities, charter schools represent more than 20 percent of all public school enrollment. In seven cities, charter schools enroll more than 40 percent of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Buildings, Politics of Education, Financial Support