Mayor of Indianapolis Charter School Initiative. Public Impact has played a leading role in the design of a charter school program for the Mayor of Indianapolis, the nation’s only mayor with chartering authority. We have helped design the application review process, the accountability system, and the effort to attract highly qualified charter applicants. Harvard named the initiative the 2006 winner of its presitigious Innovations in American Government Award. See the mayor’s charter school website here; read a write up about the mayor's initiative in Education Next here and our Progressive Policy Institute monograph here [pdf].