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Ebony H. Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Despite increasing enrollment rates among Great Lakes state charter schools, a growing body of research acknowledged the disproportionate number of charter school closures experienced by a marginalized student population. The purpose of this qualitative comparison case study was to examine whether inequities existed in the contract renewal process…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Closing, Minority Group Students, Contracts
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Matthew S. McCluskey – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2024
In their nascent stages, charter schools formed under competing ideologies. In academic circles, charter schools were envisioned as pedagogical laboratories that would allow for educator- and community-driven school improvement. In other circles, charter schools emerged as a free-market reform driven by accountability, choice, and growth. Amid the…
Descriptors: Scaling, Organizational Culture, Values, Charter Schools
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2023
In 2023, charter school advocates continued to make legislative gains in statehouses across the country. These gains were made in red, blue, and purple states, oftentimes in ways that showed bipartisan support for charter schools remains firmly in place. In looking at the results of this year's legislative sessions across the country, four…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, State Legislation, Political Influences
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Douglas N. Harris; Roy McKenzie – National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice, 2023
Charter schools are privately operated public schools funded by the government with oversight from school districts, state education departments, or other government authorizers. This gives charter schools autonomy from many government rules and regulations, allows them to specialize and innovate in particular types of education, and gives parents…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, State Policy, Educational Policy, Government Role
Benjamin P. Jankens – Education Leadership Review, 2022
Charter schools began as an experiment to improve public education in the United States of America (Weil, 2000). The theory was that these schools would operate outside of traditional public schools and would be free of the oversight and regulatory requirements constraining the current educational systems, in exchange for increased accountability…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Administration, Governance, Performance
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Ferrare, Joseph J.; Waddington, R. Joseph; Fitzpatrick, Brian R.; Berends, Mark – American Educational Research Journal, 2023
We estimate the longitudinal effects of charter schools authorized by different authorizing bodies on student achievement by using student-level data from Indiana. The results of our analysis point to substantial variation, especially between the state's two largest authorizers: Ball State University and the Indianapolis Mayor's Office. Some of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Charter Schools, Academic Achievement, School Administration
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Martha Bradley Dorsey; Ian Kingsbury – Journal of School Choice, 2024
States vary widely in their approaches to charter school regulation. We administered online surveys to charter school leaders in four of the most stringently regulated states and three of the least stringently regulated states to examine how their approach might influence perceived school goals and levels of goal agreement. Generally, survey…
Descriptors: Accountability, School Choice, Charter Schools, School Administration
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Vinall, Caroline – Management in Education, 2022
Multi-Academy Trusts (MAT) have developed organically in England since 2010. As a result, there appears to be a lack of consistency in the interpretation of delegated responsibilities of Local Governing Bodies (LGB). In a small-scale study of Headteacher (HT) accountability within one English MAT, governance was revealed as a major cause for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, Boards of Education, Principals
Kathryn N. Rusnak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative case study focuses on the impact of neoliberal education reform on an urban charter school serving students of Color. This study has two main objectives: to examine how neoliberal reform influences the goal-oriented actions of data meetings (DMs) in an urban elementary school and engages in a formative intervention methodology to…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Urban Schools, Charter Schools
Minnesota Department of Education, 2023
The purpose of this document is to provide information and resources on special education for charter schools and charter school authorizers. The information in this report should not be relied upon as a comprehensive or definitive response to specific legal situations involving special education compliance. This report includes a: (1) Minnesota…
Descriptors: Special Education, Charter Schools, School Administration, Planning
Curtis Valentine; M. Karega Rausch – Progressive Policy Institute, 2024
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been a catalyst for transformation in K-12 through initiatives, including diversifying teaching pipelines, starting new schools, and establishing programs designed to meet the aspirations of students far away from quality opportunities. HBCUs and their alumni have played powerful roles in…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Charter Schools, Expertise, College School Cooperation
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2021
Charter schools are public schools established under charters, typically with state or local entities. In return for more flexibility and autonomy, charter schools must meet specific accountability standards. This briefing from the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) describes: (1) the challenges charter schools face when attempting to…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Charter Schools, Educational Facilities, Accountability
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
2021 was a great year for charter school students and families across the country. Several states passed legislation to allow more schools to open and promote fiscal equity. In other states, charter school advocates were able to defeat a number of bills that would have imposed significant and unnecessary burdens on charter schools. In our 2021…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Charter Schools, School Choice, Public Schools
Ryan J. Gogol – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study used a quantitative survey in the form of an online self-administered questionnaire to explore and describe the views of school leaders on chronic absenteeism in New Jersey public schools. The first of its kind, this statewide survey was designed for the purpose of understanding how school leaders perceive the importance of equity in…
Descriptors: Attendance, Administrator Attitudes, Public Schools, Administrator Role
Center for Learner Equity, 2023
On July 24, 2023, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education (US ED) released a Dear Colleague letter (DCL) and lengthy guidance related to the responsibilities states have to oversee the education of students with disabilities in their schools and to ensure that those students are afforded all of their…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Guidance, Federal Legislation, Equal Education
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