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Abell Foundation, 2015
Over the past decade, a handful of high performing public charter schools have developed in Baltimore, but the need for high quality educational offerings, particularly for low-income students, remains high. "'Chartering' Maryland's Future: Is There an Expanded Role for National Charter Management Organizations in Our Schools?" considers…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Governance, Public Schools, Urban Schools
Bialik, Gadi – eJEP: eJournal of Education Policy, 2014
Scholarly writing in the field of education policy analysis often considers two conflicting governance agendas: the social-democratic "public" agenda and the relatively young "neoliberal" governance agenda. These agendas are frequently described as being part of a process of transformation from public or state to private…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Charter Schools, Governance, School Administration
Kim, Juli; Field, Tim; Hassel, Bryan C. – Public Impact, 2019
Across the United States, a movement to create a new kind of public school--"autonomous district schools"--is giving districts the freedoms charter schools receive. Like charter schools, autonomous district schools are freed from innovation-inhibiting state and district policies, allowing talented educators to make academic and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Public Schools, Educational Quality, Educational Improvement
Zimmer, Ron; Henry, Gary T.; Kho, Adam – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
In recent years, the federal government has invested billions of dollars to reform chronically low-performing schools. To fulfill their federal Race to the Top grant agreement, Tennessee implemented three turnaround strategies that adhered to the federal restart and transformation models: (a) placed schools under the auspices of the Achievement…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, School Districts, Public Schools, Charter Schools
Babineau, Kate; Hand, Dave; Rossmeier, Vincent – Cowen Institute, 2017
The report is the Institute's annual analysis of the city's unique and ever-evolving public education system. This year's report finds that school performance scores continues to increase, while areas for improvement and progress remain. The report also assesses the impact that RSD-OPSB school unification will likely have on students and families.…
Descriptors: Public Education, Academic Achievement, Scores, Comparative Analysis
Junemann, Carolina; Ball, Stephen J. – Education Inquiry, 2013
This paper addresses some recent changes in the landscape of state education in England. In particular, it focuses on the way in which Academies, state-funded independent schools introduced by New Labour and now being drastically extended and taken further by the Coalition government, are contributing to the ongoing and increasing blurring of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Charter Schools, Educational Policy
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016
Currently, more than 180,000 students attend 135 full-time virtual charter schools in 23 states and the District of Columbia. While some students do well in a full-time virtual charter school environment, too many of these schools are not providing a quality educational program to the vast majority of their students, while enrolling too many who…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Virtual Classrooms, Distance Education, Educational Quality
Vasquez Heilig, Julian; Clark, Brent, Jr. – Grantee Submission, 2018
Charter schools have seen a nearly tripling in students, with approximately 3.1 million students enrolled in 2016-2017. As of 2017, 1 in 8 African American students attended a charter school in the United States. This article provides a conceptual introduction to a special issue on equity issues within the charter school movement, with a…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Equal Education, School Choice, Minority Group Students
Smarick, Andy – National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016
The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), gives states the opportunity to rethink their K-12 accountability systems. Gone are No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) tight rules for assessing and intervening in schools and districts. This could not come at a better time for urban schooling. Urban districts operate in a very…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Accountability, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation
Finn, Chester E., Jr.; Manno, Bruno V.; Wright, Brandon L. – Harvard Education Press, 2016
"Charter Schools at the Crossroads" offers a frank and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcomings of the charter movement, and outlines possible directions for the future. Few observers present at the creation of the first charter schools a quarter-century ago could have predicted how rapidly this movement would spread or how…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational History, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2016
Charter Management Organizations (CMOs) are nonprofit entities that manage at least two charter schools. They play an important role in increasing the number of high-quality charter public schools by enabling the replication and expansion of models that work, creating economies of scale, encouraging collaboration, and building support structures…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Nonprofit Organizations, School Effectiveness, High Achievement
Mason, Mary L.; Reckhow, Sarah – Education Policy Center at Michigan State University, 2016
State takeovers were an infrequently applied strategy to address the problems of financially and academically troubled schools for many decades. Although 23 states had the right to take over individual schools and No Child Left Behind (NCLB) required states to address persistently low-achieving schools, only five states had exercised their power…
Descriptors: Educational History, United States History, State Government, Natural Disasters
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, 2021
2020 was a historically challenging year that will be remembered for generations to come. There were various challenges that impacted not just the charter school movement but the entire country. This annual report provides a timeline of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools' 15 years of progress, shares charter school facts, and…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational History, COVID-19
Bulkley, Katrina E.; Henig, Jeffrey R. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2015
Amid the growth of charter schools, autonomous schools, and private management organizations, an increasing number of urban districts are moving toward a portfolio management model (PMM). In a PMM, the district central office oversees schools that operate under a variety of governance models. The expansion of PMMs raises questions about local…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Privatization, Portfolio Assessment, School Districts
Hand, Dave – Cowen Institute, 2016
The Recovery School District (RSD) was created by Louisiana legislators in 2003 for the purpose of transforming schools with a history of failure by placing them under state control and oversight. The RSD's scope was expanded in 2005 to allow it to take over the lowest performing schools in Louisiana. This had its most profound impact on New…
Descriptors: School Districts, School Turnaround, Board of Education Role, Elementary Secondary Education