Among these are five Success Academy schools, consistently the highest achieving schools, charter or district, as well as several independent charters either replicating proven high quality school models — e.g. Bronx Charter School for Excellence 2, one of the highest performing independents — or developing innovative new models — the New York City Charter School of the Arts, with its music - infused education program. (nyccharterschools.org)
Done well, it uncovers unmet needs and produces innovative new models. (edutopia.org)
It also includes innovative new models like Louisiana's «course choice» program, which allows students to take a portion of their school funding to go to outside providers for individual classes and Arizona's Education Savings Account program, which creates a Health Savings Account - like restricted use fund that families can use to pay for education. (educationnext.org)