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Medler, Alex; Reddy, Vinayak – National Charter School Resource Center, 2018
Charter schools face high-stakes accountability. When charter schools fail to perform as expected, including as measured on state tests, authorizers are often expected to close them. While the details of charter school oversight are shaped by each state's charter school policy, federal law influences how states test children and evaluate all…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Educational Policy
Balloffet, Liana; Téllez, Kip – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
Despite the widespread popularity of both Dual Language Programs (DLP) and charter schools in California, little is known about the intersection of these two school models. In a quantitative study utilizing several statewide databases, researchers explored four questions related to DLP and charter schools: 1) How many Latina/x/o students attend…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Elementary School Students, Charter Schools, Bilingual Education
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2015
During the 2014-15 school year, almost 500 new public charter schools opened. An estimated 348,000 additional students were attending public charter schools in the 2014-15 school year compared with the previous school year. With the addition of new charter schools and students, there are now more than 6,700 public charter schools enrolling about…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Geographic Location, Enrollment Trends
Abdalla, Mohamed – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The debate on charter schools is attributed to doubts that such schools are improving the performance of their students. While proponents of charter schools praise their flexibility and creativity, opponents of charter schools posited that charter schools increased segregation, and skimmed the cream of the crop from traditional schools (Miron,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Marketing, Public Schools, Comparative Analysis
Vanourek, Gregg – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2020
Last spring, the Covid-19 pandemic upended routines for over 56 million students and challenged more than 3.7 million teachers in over 130,000 schools nationwide to continue educating kids in an online format. This transition to "virtual learning" was understandably trying for all educators, schools, and districts, but some managed to do…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing
Raymond, Macke – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2018
The "Getting Down to Facts" project seeks to create a common evidence base for understanding the current state of California school systems and lay the foundation for substantive conversations about what education policies should be sustained and what might be improved to ensure increased opportunity and success for all students in…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, State Policy, Educational Policy
Mertens, Steven B.; Flowers, Nancy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
Utilizing longitudinal data from the national Schools to Watch (STW) program, this paper examines school demographic characteristics and teacher ratings of the implementation of STW criteria in STW schools and schools that have applied but have not yet been designated as a STW. The STW program was established by the National Forum to Accelerate…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Institutional Characteristics, School Effectiveness, School Demography
Gao, Niu; Lafortune, Julien – Public Policy Institute of California, 2020
This document includes two technical appendices that accompany the full report, "Improving K-12 School Facilities in California." The two appendixes include: (1) FIT Assessment Data; and (2) Supplemental Tables and Figures. [For the full report, "Improving K-12 School Facilities in California," see ED607958.]
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Improvement, Physical Environment, Facility Guidelines, School Buildings
Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2017
The Chicago International Charter School (CICS) Irving Park's middle school is one of 130 schools nationwide piloting the Summit Learning Program (SLP), developed--and offered entirely free--by Summit Public Schools, a high-performing charter network based in California. Summit's eight schools, two of them in Washington State, are known for an…
Descriptors: Individualized Instruction, Charter Schools, Middle Schools, Models
Pfeiffer-Hoens, Mareen – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Assessment of student performance is one of the most critical responsibilities of school leaders and teachers. Teachers and school leaders must acquire an understanding of assessment literacy for utilizing data to make sound data-driven decisions. The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate the levels of assessment literacy among…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Instructional Leadership, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Teachers
Potter, Halley; Quick, Kimberly – Century Foundation, 2016
Students in racially and socioeconomically integrated schools experience academic, cognitive, and social benefits that are not available to students in racially isolated, high-poverty environments. As Americans consider the consequences of an education system that increasingly sorts students by race and class, it is also important to recognize the…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Socioeconomic Status, School Districts, Charter Schools
Tyler, Burr; Britton, Ted; Nguyen, Kimberly; Estrella, Denise; Arnett, Elizabeth; Iveland, Ashley; Nilsen, Katy – WestEd, 2020
The NGSS Early Implementers Initiative was created to help eight California school districts and two charter management organizations, supported by WestEd's K-12 Alliance, implement the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Many educational initiatives are funded for only a couple of years. This unique initiative spanned an extraordinary six…
Descriptors: State Standards, Science Education, Science Instruction, School Districts
Mintrop, Rick; Ordenes, Miguel; Coghlan, Erin; Pryor, Laura; Madero, Cristobal – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2018
Purpose: The study examines why the logic of a performance management system, supported by the federal Teacher Incentive Fund, might be faulty. It does this by exploring the nuances of the interplay between teaching evaluations as formative and summative, the use of procedures, tools, and artifacts obligated by the local Teacher Incentive Fund…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Merit Pay, Incentives, Formative Evaluation
Monarrez, Tomas; Kisida, Brian; Chingos, Matthew – Urban Institute, 2019
Many students are enrolled in segregated school systems with unequal access to resources. In this report, we present a measure that can help policymakers identify the schools in their system that are contributing the most to segregation. How our measure differs from traditional metrics: Much research on segregation relies on an absolute measure of…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Access to Education, Minority Group Students, African American Students
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016
The innovative and culturally responsive teaching practices provided in high-quality charter schools are not only providing Hispanic students with an excellent alternative to district public schools, but they are also yielding academic results that show neither race/ethnicity nor income level must determine a child's future. The compilation of…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Hispanic American Students, Outcomes of Education