The Charter Schools Program (CSP) is a key lever that the federal government uses to ensure charter schools provide more students access to excellent public schools. As the U.S. Department of Education studies the program, a new National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) brief, "U.S. Department of Education's CSP: Investing in Students by Investing in Charter School Authorizing," provides four recommendations for improving technical assistance in the CSP State Entity grant -- a critical component to ensuring strong, equitable, and effective authorizing: (1) Boost funding for technical assistance, by increasing the 7% set-aside to at least 10%; (2) Promote and support high-quality authorizing by ensuring half of all technical assistance funding is used on authorizing; (3) Provide flexibility for grantees to spend more technical assistance funding in the first two-years of grants; and (4) Ensure transparency and effectiveness by requiring grantees to conduct a needs assessment when applying for and an evaluation when concluding a CSP grant.