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Curran, F. Chris – Educational Policy, 2019
Reform of school zero tolerance discipline policies is complicated by a lack of systematic evidence on the prevalence and characteristics of such policies. Through document analysis, this study compares explicit zero tolerance laws/policies and mandatory expulsion laws/policies across the domains of federal law, state law, district policy, and…
Descriptors: Zero Tolerance Policy, School Districts, Governance, Incidence
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2021
The 2020-21 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report provides insight into our sponsorship work during the last school year, one of the most challenging imaginable for schools, students, and families. As expected, student outcomes on 2020-21 state assessments were lower across all schools last year, but other traditional academic outcome data were once…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, State Standards
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Bifulco, Robert; Reback, Randall – Education Finance and Policy, 2014
This brief argues that charter school programs can have direct fiscal impacts on school districts for two reasons. First, operating two systems of public schools under separate governance arrangements can create excess costs. Second, charter school financing policies can distribute resources to or away from districts. Using the city school…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Governance, Resources
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Quinn, Rand; Ogburn, Laura – Educational Policy, 2020
We examine the role of ideas in the politics of school choice policy and situate our study within scholarship that understands frames and logics as types of ideas operating in the foreground and background of policy debates. Our data are from a case study of political contention over portfolio management reform (in which a central office oversees…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Politics of Education, School Choice, Educational Change
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
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West, Anne; Wolfe, David – London Review of Education, 2019
This article focuses on the transformative academies policy in England. Based on an analysis of documentary evidence, we argue that the policy has resulted in the fragmentation of the state-funded school system and stark variation between academies, with those within multi-academy trusts (MATs) having no legal identity. We examine the variation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools
Fellows, Marcus A. – Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, 2018
This report evaluates the current state of research on New York City charter schools. Overall, their effect on student performance is unambiguously positive.The research however, is more dated and limited in scope than proponents and critics of charters appreciate. While the research on charter schools across the U.S. is growing, this paper…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Program Effectiveness, Urban Schools, School Effectiveness
Ziebarth, Todd – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
This twelfth edition of "Measuring up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws" evaluates each state's public charter school law against the 21 essential components of a strong charter school law. These 21 components are drawn from the National Alliance's "A New Model Law for Supporting the Growth of High-Quality Public…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, School Law, State Legislation
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2022
The latest edition of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation's sponsorship annual report highlights our work during the 2021-22 school year, overseeing twelve schools that served 5,500 students in four Ohio cities. We value this opportunity to keep stakeholders and the public informed about our efforts, and provide information on each of the schools…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Institutional Mission, Institutional Evaluation, Outcomes of Education
Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board, 2018
Over the past decade, charter schools have gained a prominent role in the debate over how to improve K-12 education, becoming one of those rare ideas that attracts bipartisan support. Yet as charter schools have expanded and begun educating more American school children, so has discussion over the role charter schools should ultimately play in our…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, School Role, Public Education
Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2023
Our 2022-23 Fordham Sponsorship Annual Report shares our work during the last school year, overseeing thirteen schools that served approximately 6,000 students in Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati and Portsmouth, Ohio. We value this opportunity to keep stakeholders and the public informed about our efforts, provide information on each of the schools we…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Institutional Mission, Institutional Evaluation, Charter Schools
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Berry, William; Groth, Laura M.; Glazer, Joshua L. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2022
The portfolio management models (PMM) has emerged as an important idea in educational governance over the last decade. In PMM systems, a district or other form of authorizer oversees a collection of independent organizations that operate schools according to their particular philosophy and strategic orientation. Yet underlying the design of PMMs…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, School Districts, Academic Achievement, Competition
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McKittrick, Lanya; Gill, Sean; Opalka, Alice; Tuchman, Sivan; Kothari, Shaini – Journal of School Choice, 2019
Charter schools are often the only alternative to traditional public schools for students with disabilities in rural communities. Part of a larger study, we employed a qualitative multiple case study design to examine special education practices in five rural charter schools to understand the services provided, barriers to providing these…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Rural Schools, Charter Schools, Case Studies
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National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, 2020
The challenges associated with educating students with disabilities in charter schools in Connecticut are symptoms of two broader issues--the state's inequitable public education funding system and problematic ambiguity in the state charter law. Connecticut is a state of haves and have nots, and effectively advocating for more equitable funding…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Charter Schools, Public Education, Educational Equity (Finance)
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National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, 2017
"What Is an Infrastructure? Special Education Support Systems in Charter Schools" discusses ways in which charter schools form entities such as coops and collaboratives to pool resources, create economies of scale, and mitigate risks in order to better serve students with disabilities.
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Special Education, Students with Disabilities, Student Needs
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