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Charter Accountability For District-Run Schools: Using ESSA to Create Contract-Based Accountability for Urban Public Education

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 couldn’t come at a better time for urban schooling. Urban districts operate in a very different… Continue reading Charter Accountability For District-Run Schools: Using ESSA to Create Contract-Based Accountability for Urban Public Education

A New Model Law for Supporting the Growth of High-Quality Charter Public Schools: Second Edition

A New Model Law for Supporting the Growth of High-Quality Charter Public Schools: Second Edition calls on state policymakers to strengthen the laws governing charter schools. In this revised version of the National Alliance’s model charter school law, the policies outlined would increase the focus of state-level charter school laws on creating high-quality charter schools… Continue reading A New Model Law for Supporting the Growth of High-Quality Charter Public Schools: Second Edition

Charter Public Schools Serving Hispanic Communities

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with the release of a new report titled Charter Schools Serving Hispanic Communities. The compilation of research featured in the report shows how the over 12 million Hispanic children in American public schools are faring, with the data time and again showing that charter… Continue reading Charter Public Schools Serving Hispanic Communities

2015 Annual Report

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2015, and we couldn’t be happier with the progress we achieved over the past year and the past decade. We have many more highlights in our 2015 Annual Report. As we look to the future and celebrate our movements 25th anniversary in 2016… Continue reading 2015 Annual Report

Demanding a Chance: Parents Demand for Charter Schools Continues to Grow

Demanding a Chance: Parents Demand for Charter Schools Continues to Grow, a report on new findings from a survey commissioned by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, found that 78 percent of parents support a charter school opening in their neighborhood and an equal number of parents favor more public school choices, regardless of… Continue reading Demanding a Chance: Parents Demand for Charter Schools Continues to Grow

How to Recruit High-Performing Charter Management Organizations to a New Region: Results from the 2015 CMO Survey

How to Recruit High-Performing Charter Management Organizations to a New Region: Results from the 2015 CMO Survey is designed to help policymakers and community leaders around the country understand CMO preferences for expansion. State and local lawmakers are working more deliberately and aggressively to attract the country’s best CMOs to their cities and states. These… Continue reading How to Recruit High-Performing Charter Management Organizations to a New Region: Results from the 2015 CMO Survey

The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis

The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis evaluates the health of the charter public school movement in key states across the country. Following the first report released in October 2014, this second edition measures movement growth, innovation, and quality, while this year doubling the number of quality measures. Due to these… Continue reading The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis

A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement: Schools, Students, and Management Organizations, 2015-2016

Enrollment in charter public schools has grown by 250,000 students in the 2015-16 school year, and more than 400 new charter public schools have opened their doors, according to, A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement: Schools, Students, and Management Organizations, 2015-16. The report also estimates that the total number of students currently attending charter… Continue reading A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement: Schools, Students, and Management Organizations, 2015-2016

Getting Lost While Trying to Follow the Money

Tracking the special education dollars that support services for students with disabilities attending public schools is complicated; attempting to track the funds to autonomous public charter schools is even more so. Public schools, traditional and charter alike, receive their operating revenues from three primary sources: local property taxes, state per-pupil allocations, and federal categorical-aid programs.… Continue reading Getting Lost While Trying to Follow the Money

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