#AskAuthorizers: What do YOU want to know?
Each year since 2008, NACSA has conducted the nation’s only targeted survey of charter school authorizers and authorizing practices. We will release the latest survey results starting on April 15 in an...
View ArticleColorado’s New Charter Law Will Help Grow Charters Responsibly
Earlier this month, Colorado Governor Hickenlooper signed House Bill 1184 into law, which will help grow and expand Colorado’s networks of quality charter schools. Colorado has a mix of individual...
View ArticleOklahoma Governor Signs Comprehensive Charter School Bill, Expands Charter...
Great news from Oklahoma today: after two years of hard work on the ground attending coalition meetings, researching data to support various polices and scrutinizing language, Gov. Mary Fallon signed...
View ArticleFriendly Fire from AEI
In The Paperwork Pileup, authors Michael Q. McShane, Jenn Hatfield, and Elizabeth English assert that charter authorizers are often creating “onerous and lengthy” application processes that may scare...
View ArticleUnnecessary Concern about CMOs in Connecticut
CMOs are nothing to be scared of. They simply reflect one of many ways to organize and operate a charter school. Some charter school governing boards choose to work with them because they can bring a...
View ArticleOhio Charter Sponsor Rankings Continue to Tackle the Accountability Issue
This week, the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) announced the latest round of ratings for Ohio charter school authorizers, also known as sponsors, in the state. The ratings take a close look at the...
View ArticleWonk-Attack (Volume 1): First Step Transparency, Second Step Accountability...
With legislative sessions across the country coming to a close for 2015, we saw performance transparency as a trend this session.Categories: Accountability Ask the Experts Authorizing Standards...
View ArticleAltering Authorizing
The characteristics of alternative charter schools suggest there should be differences in how authorizers implement financial practices and accountability measures for such schools.Categories:...
View ArticleBipartisan Charter Provisions Included in ESEA Reauthorization Bills to be...
Today, the U.S. Senate passed S. 1177, more commonly referred to as the “Every Child Achieves Act” (ECAA), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). The bipartisan,...
View ArticleESEA: Nineteen Words with a Big Punch
ESEA cleared a major hurdle last with an 81-17 bi-partisan vote in on the Senate floor. This post breaks down what it means for authorizing practice, how it interacts with testing, and how it...
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