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This study found that charter schools continue to receive nearly 20 percent less funding per pupil than district schools. The report, created in collaboration with researchers Meagan Batdorff, Larry Maloney, and Jay May, examines FY 2006-07 data from 24 states and Washington, DC in the most comprehensive analysis of charter funding to date. Read more here.
This case study, conducted for Seton Education Partners, explores the 2009 effort by the Miami Archdiocese and local charter school operators and support organizations to open eight charter schools in former Catholic school facilities. The charter schools provide education options to low-income communities and sustain the Catholic parishes in which they operate. Read more here. |
Free to Lead: Autonomy in Highly Successful Charter Schools
This report builds on interviews with leaders of five highly successful charter schools to understand how autonomy has enabled them to achieve outstanding results. This issue brief, prepared for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, explores seven autonomies that have made a difference in the profiled schools and that hold promise as part of broader reform. Read more here.
Charter schools across the country, on average, are not enjoying the full autonomy that policymakers and education reformers promised as part of the charter school “bargain” of greater autonomy for strong accountability. This report, conducted for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, examined 100 charter contracts and 26 state charter laws to measure how much freedom charter schools have in fourteen critical areas. Read more here. |
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