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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe State of Charter School Authorizing: A Report on NACSA's Authorizer Survey - 2012 Edition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter Schools, Oversight MonitoringNACSA seeks to document and analyze the progression of charter school authorizing practices through its annual authorizer survey...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen It Really Matters: Charter Renewal Decisions at the State University of New York
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Authorizers, Charter Schools, Oversight MonitoringThe charter renewal decision is one of the most significant high stakes decision in public education. It determines the continui...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkViewpoint: Differentiated Charter Authorizing Strategies for Innovation, Scale, and Quality
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Authorizers, Charter Schools, Curriculum, Instruction and AssessmentsA maturing charter sector still operates on first-generation laws designed to launch a few experimental schools. However, the ch...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkViewpoint: Chartering Pre-K: How Natural Synergies Between the Charter and Pre-K Movements Can Improve Public Education
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter SchoolsBoth the charter school and universal pre-K movements have grown substantially during the past 10 years. Nearly 5,000 charter sc...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkViewpoint: Charter 2.0 -- Charter Schools and Public Education in Colorado
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter Schools, Policy, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Curriculum, Instruction and AssessmentsThis paper examines the various policy and implementation levers available to inject affirmative solutions into the charter scho...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkViewpoint: Authorizing Online Learning
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter SchoolsDuring this decade, American education will shift from print to digital, from flat and sequential content to engaging and adapti...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Value of Quality On-Site School Reviews: Seeing Is Believing
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter Schools, Oversight MonitoringThe charter school concept is built on the premise that in return for freedom, charter schools are held accountable to promises ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Terms of the Deal: A Quality Charter School Contract Defined
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Authorizers, Charter Schools, Oversight MonitoringA contract is about commitment and responsibility. It is about the commitment that two or more parties make and the responsibili...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Charter School Application Process
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Authorizers, Charter SchoolsOver the last decade, the charter school sector has learned a great deal about what it takes to establish and operate a quality ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Authorizer and Charter School Closures: Exercising Adaptive Leadership to Protect the Public Interest
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter Schools, Oversight MonitoringPart and parcel of a charter school authorizer's oversight responsibility is the unenviable task of closing a school that fails ...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSuccessfully Authorizing Blended Charter Schools
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Authorizers, Charter SchoolsBlended charter schools (sometimes called hybrid charter schools) provide student instruction at least in part at supervised bri...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkStepping Up: University Leadership in the Charter School Sector
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter SchoolsColleges and universities throughout the country are stepping up their involvement in the charter school sector. Driven by a com...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSteering the Course for Success: Authorizers and Effective Charter School Governance
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Leadership, Governing Boards, Authorizers, Charter Schools and 6 additional..Researcher Gary Gruber has stated, No other singular variable is more important for the health and vitality of a school than the...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSteadying the Three-Legged Stool: Authorizers, Charter Schools, and Education Service Providers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Governing Boards, Authorizers, Charter SchoolsIn carrying out their work, authorizers typically work to achieve steadiness in a two-party accountability relationship with a c...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSquare Pegs: Charter Authorizers in Non-Charter Agencies
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter SchoolsIn a 1985 Newsweek interview, Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs described the team that created the Macintosh as a group of peop...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSchool Quality in the Cloud: Guidelines for Authorizing Virtual Charter Schools
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Authorizers, Charter Schools, Oversight MonitoringOne of the most interesting yet challenging developments in recent years for many charter authorizers across the country has bee...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSchool Districts Choosing to Charter
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter SchoolsSchool district associations across the country have often opposed charter school legislation as strongly, or more strongly, tha...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkResource Toolkit for Working with Education Service Providers
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Authorizers, Charter SchoolsThis document is a tool for authorizers who are working with education service providers. Topics covered include: roles, respons...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkQuality Authorizing for Online and Blended-Learning Charter Schools
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Authorizers, Charter Schools, Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, Curriculum, Instruction and AssessmentsOnline and blended learning have grown dramatically in K-12 education in the past dozen years, creating countless new opportunit...Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPrinciples & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing - 2012 Edition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: Petition Review, Leadership, Authorizers, Charter Schools and 5 additional..The Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, first established in 2004, reflect the lessons learned by exp...Views: 0Favorites: 0