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On the prekindergarten issue, Success argues that the city's demand that it sign the contract violates state law, which it says gives a charter school's authorizer, not the city, oversight of its prekindergarten programs.

Second, every single DCPS - run school will be put on a performance contract held by a charter school authorizer.

After fruitlessly seeking new sponsors to take on the potential «orphans» — eligible organizations feared the political, financial, and legal - liability risks — and after much internal soul - searching and debate, Fordham decided in 2004 to apply to become a school authorizer and by June 2005 we found ourselves occupying that hot seat.

Early on, the role of charter school authorizers seemed so straightforward that little focus was placed on them, while the politics of chartering and the action surrounding the schools themselves consumed most of the attention.

The flaw is relying on school districts to be authorizers.

If we rely completely on charter authorizers, we have a very long road ahead of us to replace all of our failing schools with high - quality ones and to provide real opportunity for all kids.

The NACSA report on state policies associated with charter school accountability attempts to describe how laws, regulations, and authorizer practices interact to influence charter quality.

Chicago has rightfully earned a reputation as one of the nation's most thoughtful charter school authorizers, but Mayor Richard M. Daley's high - profile push to expand on that foundation is fraught with challenges, a report from the Washington - based Progressive Policy Institute contends.

The authorizer can remove it from the public system — meaning no more public funds; per Pierce, the school has the right to stay open, but it must, as it had before, rely on its own streams of funding.

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

This points to the critical role of charter school authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of direcschool authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of authorizers and the tremendous work that Greg Richmond, head of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of direcSchool Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of Authorizers (NACSA), has done in carrying the banner for more rigorous charter accountability (full disclosure: I sit on the NACSA board of directors).

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We at Fordham have lived through a long, slow, painful — but ultimately successful — effort to repair Ohio's charter law, which was full of loopholes and lax provisions bearing on schools and authorizers alike.

One strategy is for a group of charter authorizers, district leaders, and school and school association leaders to come together to take a stand for quality to build on the existing success stories in Detroit.

If necessary, an authorizer may place the school on probation, decide not to renew the school's charter, or — usually in the case of severe issues — terminate the charter prior to its expiration.

NACSA, on the other hand, «has helped our nation's charter school authorizers improve how they do their jobs for over 15 years.»

South Carolina appears on track to enact legislation that would create both a statewide authorizer for charter schools and a new statewide district exclusively for those schools.

Too many policymakers and authorizers find themselves unable to truly assess the performance of alternative schools and distinguish, as the report notes, «AECs [that] likely save the lives of many students» from those schools that are «terrible warehouses that temporarily hold kids before putting them on the street.»

I am not suggesting that the Arnold Foundation (or the charter movement in general) abandon all quality control efforts, but I think quality is best promoted by relying heavily on parent judgement and otherwise relying on a decentralized system of authorizers with the most contextual information to make decisions about opening and closing schools if parents seem to have difficulty assessing quality on their own.

Charter school authorizers are getting «choosier» about which applications for schools they will accept and are basing decisions not to renew charters more on student - achievement issues than previously recognized, an analysis by a pro-charter organization finds.

In short, the takeaway from the charter literature seems to be that they are, on average, more effective than traditional public schools in urban settings and perhaps should be encouraged there, but that authorizers and policy contexts matter tremendously in determining whether these schools succeed or not.

So, he asks «whether regulators are any good at identifying which schools will contribute to test score gains» and then says this: «The bottom line is that none of the factors used by authorizers to open or renew charter schools in New Orleans were predictive of how much test score growth these schools could produce later on.»

(It bears noting that charter schools are not on this list — indeed, charter schools remain locked into existing accountability pressures and arguably these pressures are even more acute in some states where poor performance can lead authorizers to not renew a charter.)

As the charter authorizer, our job is to keep our strong focus on quality — closing low - performing schools, helping promising schools improve, encouraging our best schools to expand, and applying rigorous oversight to approve only the most - promising new applicants.

Greg Richmond is the President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and a leading voice in the nation's debates on public charter school quality, access, and accountabSchool Authorizers (NACSA) and a leading voice in the nation's debates on public charter school quality, access, and accountabschool quality, access, and accountability.

It focuses on the ends that authorizers should aim to attain in creating and upholding high expectations for the schools they charter while recognizing there are many means of getting there.

But when it comes to expanding schools, if this research holds, I will rely less on positive test scores, and I think authorizers should do the same.

The study outlines PCSB's authorizing strategies and tactics that policymakers, other authorizers and traditional school districts can adopt, adapt and build on in order to strengthen their practices.

His work includes leading research on strategies to increase the supply and diversity of high - quality charter schools; he also works directly with charter school authorizers to develop strong performance frameworks and authorizing practices.

She manages a range of survey projects that focus on teacher perceptions and school climate, and oversees data collection efforts to catalog charter school closure actions and develop a national database of authorizers and their schools.

This special report, funded by the USDOE National Initiatives Grant of the Charter Schools Program and administered by the National Association of State Directors of Special Education, is a supplement to a series of special education primers, Primers on Special Education in Charter Schools, created to inform state officials, authorizers and charter school operators about special education in the charter sector.

Ms. Boast contributed to the National Association of Charter School Authorizer's Core Performance Framework and Guidance and has worked directly with authorizers in over 14 states on performance monitoring and accountability.

In addition to providing guidance and consulting assistance to authorizers, we routinely advise policymakers, researchers, and school reform advocates on authorizer practices and related aspects of charter school policy.

2) How many charter authorizers actually do a good job of judging school quality — how representative is the highly idealized, romantic fantasy Mike has provided here of the way charter authorizers typically work back here on Earth Prime?

From 2010 - 2017, Sara served on the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board, which authorizes charter schools in Washington, D.C. Sara currently serves on the board of the National Association for Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).

It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter schools and then hold them accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do not).

Schools run by CMOs have produced greater gains in student learning on state assessments than their district - school counterparts, while the mom - and - pops have fared less well, possibly making the single - site schools less attractive to authoSchools run by CMOs have produced greater gains in student learning on state assessments than their district - school counterparts, while the mom - and - pops have fared less well, possibly making the single - site schools less attractive to authoschools less attractive to authorizers.

We have also worked with the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) to develop an «academic performance framework» authorizers can use to identify high - and low - performing schools based on cleaAuthorizers (NACSA) to develop an «academic performance framework» authorizers can use to identify high - and low - performing schools based on cleaauthorizers can use to identify high - and low - performing schools based on clear criteria.

And the group's ranking of Michigan's charter school authorizers — based on the test scores of the schools they oversee — is a good conversation starter.

Our report Going Exponential offers advice for authorizers, school operators, and policymakers about growing successful charter schools, based on research about how organizations have grown quickly and with quality in other sectors.

The National Association of Charter School Authorizers, in its recent brief on virtual charter schools, acknowledges that high mobility impacts instruction and makes it challenging to evaluate virtual school performance, but offers no prescripSchool Authorizers, in its recent brief on virtual charter schools, acknowledges that high mobility impacts instruction and makes it challenging to evaluate virtual school performance, but offers no prescripschool performance, but offers no prescriptions.

If we as an authorizer relied solely or primarily on PI ratings, these great schools might be shut — wrongly.

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

The central problem with making growth the polestar of accountability systems, as Mike Petrilli and Aaron Churchill argue in «Stop Focusing on Proficiency Rates When Evaluating Schools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steadySchools,» is that it is only convincing if one is rating schools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steadyschools from the perspective of a charter authorizer or local superintendent who wants to know whether a given school is boosting the achievement of its pupils, worsening their achievement, or holding it in some kind of steady state.

To compensate for that, the mayor got on the phone and called the local authorizers, which were universities, and said, «We'd like to get some great schools to St. Louis.

This article focuses on how authorizers handle the oversight processes of charter schools in California.

So it seems that authorizers are generally unwilling to close a school that is failing to comply with federal or state law, but they are also unwilling to require the school to make changes to its special education program, presumably because the authorizers see this as infringement on charter autonomy.

The Tacoma School Board's original objection to charters focused on the loss of control, but Santorno agreed with Redinger that not becoming an authorizer may mean giving up whatever local control the district could maintain.

Authorizers can also avoid having to step in on the back end by more attention to prevention during the application process, for example, requiring schools to simply describe their marketing / outreach plans for students with disabilities (only a quarter of authorizers surveyed doAuthorizers can also avoid having to step in on the back end by more attention to prevention during the application process, for example, requiring schools to simply describe their marketing / outreach plans for students with disabilities (only a quarter of authorizers surveyed doauthorizers surveyed do this now).

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