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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVolunteers of America of Minnesota Charter School Sponsorship Program
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Starting and Operating a Charter, Authorizers, Policy, LeadershipA U.S. Department of Education profile of the first nonprofit in the nation to become a charter school authorizer, which focuses...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSchool Restructuring Options Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When? Reopening as a Charter School
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Conversion and Turnaround, Governing Boards, Starting and Operating a Charter, Staffing and 3 additional..Developed by the Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement, this guide focuses on reopening existing schools as cha...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTransforming Schools: Charter Schools as a Strategy for School Turnarounds Webinar
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Conversion and Turnaround, Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers, LeadershipThis 2009 webinar describes how the California Charter Schools Association worked with three schools in San Diego to transform l...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Quality Authorizing Challenge
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Conversion and Turnaround, Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers and 2 additional..The Charter School Center's April 2010 newsletter focuses on the challenge of implementing quality authorization processes in a ...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTransforming Struggling Schools: How various state policies can be used to enable school & district turnaround
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Conversion and Turnaround, Charter Schools, Authorizers, PolicyThis 2009 Mass Insight brief provides an overview of policy influences on the roles states play in turnarounds.Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDeveloping Financial Benchmarking Tools for Charter School Authorizers and Intermediaries
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: AuthorizersThis National Resource Center on Charter School Finance and Governance profile showcases efforts by Volunteers of America of Min...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRetrofitting Bureaucracy: Factors Influencing Charter Schools' Access to Federal Entitlement Programs
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Research and Evaluation, Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers and 5 additional..This 2010 research study from the Center on Innovation & Improvement focuses on how states have adapted existing regulations and...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkA Turnaround Case Study: CMO's Centralized Leadership, Teacher Incentives Examined
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Conversion and Turnaround, Practitioners, Staffing and 5 additional..A 2009 case study involving the Mastery Charter School Organization and Pickett Charter Middle School, Philadelphia, Pa., looks ...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHigh Stakes: Findings from a National Study of Life-or-Death Decisions by Charter School Authorizers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Research and Evaluation, Renewing, Charter Schools, AuthorizersThis report details key findings from a Public Impact study of 50 high-stakes decisions made by charter school authorizers and i...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSpecial Education Challenges and Opportunities in the Charter School Sector
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Research and Evaluation, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Legal Issues and 4 additional..This report explores the various difficulties charter schools face related to educating children with disabilities and examines ...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHolding Charter Authorizers Accountable: Why It Is Important and How It Might Be Done
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Governing Boards, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Legal Issues and 2 additional..Developed by the Center on Reinventing Public Education's National Charter School Research Project, this 2006 white paper examin...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSupporting Charter School Excellence Through Quality Authorizing
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Policy and 3 additional..This U.S. Department of Education-funded report identifies common practices among high-quality authorizing offices, identifies p...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDoing What Works Web Site: Turning Around Chronically Low-Performing Schools
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Conversion and Turnaround, Research and Evaluation, Staffing, Charter Schools and 4 additional..This U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences Web site expands on the recommendations of the department's 20...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMilitary Interstate Children's Compact Commission
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Policy and 3 additional..The Military Interstate Children's Compact Commission -- developed by The Council of State Governments' National Center for Inte...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDavis-Monthan Charter School, Informational Slide Presentation
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Parent Involvement and 4 additional..This presentation from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base provides information about the development of a charter school for the base ...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTutor.com: Free Tutoring Provided for Eligible Military Dependents
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Charter Schools, Parent InvolvementThrough this website, eligible U.S. military families and Department of Defense civilians have unlimited access at no cost and a...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkDepartment of Defense Education Activity Educational Partnership Program
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Finance and Fundraising and 4 additional..This website of the Department of Defense Education Activity’s Educational Partnership provides military families, commands and ...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkGrassroot Institute of Hawaii: Military Charter School Pilot Project
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Policy and 3 additional..This report from the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, covering work by the Institute from 2004-2006, outlines a proposal for a Mil...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkMaryland Department of Legislative Services, Fiscal and Policy Note: Public Charter Schools Located on a Military Base
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Starting and Operating a Charter, Charter Schools, Authorizers, Student Recruitment and 3 additional..This is a Department of Legislative Services analysis of the Maryland General Assembly legislation passed in 2010 that provides ...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkTenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (Supports Starting Charters on Bases)
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Charter Schools, Legal Issues, Policy, Leadership, FacilitiesThis Report of the Tenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation (Deferred and Noncash Compensation) from the U.S. Departmen...Contributor: National Charter School Resource CenterViews: 0Favorites: 0