Charter Management Organizations

Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector’s Best

Going-Exponential_2011-1The supply of seats in the nation’s best charter schools is not growing rapidly enough to serve the millions of low-income children who need better schools.  Based on lessons from the fastest growing organizations in other sectors, this report for the Progressive Policy Institute provides breakthrough solutions for growing the best charter schools and charter management organizations. With specific advice for charter sector leaders, policymakers and philanthropists, Going Exponential offers strategies that could enable every child living in poverty to have access to schools as good as today’s top ten percent charter schools by 2025. Recommendations address the major barriers limiting growth of the sector’s best, such as scarcity of excellent school leaders, funding for growth, and motivation of charter leaders to grow while maintaining excellence.

Charting a Clear Course: A Resource Guide for Building Successful Partnerships between Charter Schools and School Management Organizations

Co-authored by Bryan C. Hassel and Margaret Lin, this resource guide aims to help charter school boards forge successful relationships with school management organizations. The guide was reissued in 2005 by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Friendly Competition

Friendly-CompetitionStand-alone charter schools are among the most innovative and successful schools around. But can they serve as the basis for a sustainable, large-scale movement for change in education? Or are they likely to remain the exception rather than the rule? What kinds of institutions are needed to support the scale-up of successful models? This article in Education Next tackles these questions.


 

Developing Education Talent Pipelines for Charter Schools: A Citywide Approach

1044-NCS-WtPaper DevEdTalen[pdf] This white paper highlights six indicators of a robust talent pipeline so that charter supporters of all kinds—including charter school leaders, talent providers, charter support organizations, philanthropies, and politicians—can evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of their own efforts. It also shows through the examples of Indianapolis and New Orleans how charter supporters have been able to grow the supply of effective charter school teachers and leaders by focusing on these indicators. This white paper is part of a three-piece series continuing the discussion from a National Charter School Resource Center / U.S. Department of Education conference exploring emerging city-based movements that embrace high-quality charters as an integral component of their reform strategy.

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Going Exponential

How could every low-income child have access to the very best schools by 2025?
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Opportunity Culture

How a new focus on America’s best teachers could close the achievement gaps, raise the bar, and keep our nation great.
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Try, Try Again

Triple Your Turnaround Success Rate... Without Getting Better at Turning Around Schools.
Find out how here. (pdf)

3X for All

What would it take for every child to have an outstanding teacher, every year?

Click here to see our white paper (pdf):
 3X for All: Extending the Reach of Education’s Best.

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