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Not surprisingly, the charter schools represented by authorizers at the event showed lower percentages of students with disabilities, and slightly higher rates of suspension and expulsion than the Detroit Public schools.

This toolkit provides a framework for authorizers at each stage of the charter lifecycle, and the tools to do this work.

Check out our Special Education Toolkit: Guidance for Charter School Authorizers, developed in partnership with NACSA, which provides a framework for authorizers at each stage of the charter lifecycle, and the tools to do this work.

According to an oversight report from the school's authorizers at the State University of New York, UFT Charter struggled due to high turnover, financial mismanagement, and a lack of resources such as textbooks and other classroom equipment.

The Greenville News reports that «at the heart of the «chaos» is the effort by four charter schools, deemed failing by the statewide charter school district, to leave the state district for a new boss: a newly formed charter - school authorizer at Erskine College, a private Christian college in the Upstate.»

Not exact matches

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But analysts, authorizers, regulators, and other policy makers also make mistakes, especially if they rely predominantly on test results that are, at best, weak predictors of later - life success.

They commonly serve disadvantaged students; they are all under pressure to attract parents and to satisfy a small number of authorizers; one school may deliberately imitate another by adopting a policy that seems to be working in the other school; schools may also imitate one another unconsciously (as when teachers who have worked at one school are hired by another and bring their knowledge with them).

At the same time, alpha authorizers need to conduct sound due diligence and avoid being mesmerized by applicants who have political, financial, or star power, but lack the competencies necessary to open and operate a high - quality school.

At the start of 2012, CMU served as authorizer to 56 of the schools, which educate about 30,000 students (see Figure 1).

This article was adapted from a speech given at the annual conference of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers in Savannah, Georgia, in 2007.

School districts also have the smallest staffs when compared to other authorizers (proving my point, I'd argue, that districts weren't designed and will never have the right mindset to authorize at the highest levels).

At the local level, few schools or authorizers are willing to do anything that might threaten their ability to attract and retain families.

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.

Each should begin with a solid charter base (at least 5 percent market share), a policy environment that will enable growth (fair funding, nondistrict authorizers, and no legislated caps), and a favorable political environment (friendly elected officials and editorial boards, a positive experience with charters to date, and unorganized opposition).

This is the genius of effective charter school authorizers that look at a school's big picture as well as its scores.

The signers of the Counter-Manifesto are consistent with the sentiments of the Founders, the legislative authorizers of the Department of Education, and the American people in understanding that education standards, curriculum, and high - stakes assessments should not be done at the national level.

Some authorizers also look at student retention from year to year as a proxy for family satisfaction.

At the same time, the report says, almost half of authorizers, especially smaller ones, practice «limited oversight» of their schools.

D.C.'s charter authorizer cites low enrollment or inadequate academic achievement for many of the closures, but «financial and management deficiencies» contributed to at least 16 closures and «governance» problems to another 4 since 1998.

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.»

The following three responsibilities lie at the heart of the authorizing endeavor, and authorizers should be guided by and fulfill these Core Principles in all aspects of their work:

In the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next, Joey Gustafson took a close look at the work of charter school authorizers and at efforts to improve their effectiveness.

«It's just not growing at the same clip it used to, despite the fact that authorizers are approving the same percentage of applications.»

«Money is an issue,» agreed Karega Rausch, vice president of research and evaluation at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA).

David Greenberg has been at the Audubon Center of the North Woods since 2012 and brings to his role broad and deep experience in charter schools as a teacher, school leader, and authorizer.

As part of NACSA's 2015 annual survey, we asked authorizers for their perspectives and practices on issues at the intersection of authorizing and special education.

There is great power in working collaboratively with all charter authorizers and tapping into expertise at CPS, as well as around the country, that has often been underutilized.

At the end of March, the Tacoma Public Schools (TPS) board of directors voted 4 - 1 denoting intent to apply as a charter school authorizer in Washington state.

And indeed these vehicles are going in all different directions all at the same time, hopefully under the watchful eye of a charter authorizer or school district, but not always.

At the end of May, the Tacoma School Board voted to delay its application to become a charter - school authorizer.

Our superintendent at the county level at that time was very interested in supporting the other authorizers throughout the county, was interested in being a leader.

Authorizers should bring in outside experts to evaluate the strength of special education programs at charter schools.

Shannon Bauer is the Manager of Talent Development Programs at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, where she coordinates programs designed to help charter school authorizers engage with best practices inAuthorizers, where she coordinates programs designed to help charter school authorizers engage with best practices inauthorizers engage with best practices in the field.

When you look at the application and what they (State Board of Education) are looking for in an authorizer, we don't have the background, knowledge or experience to complete an application,» he said.

Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Goenner served as Executive Director at The Center for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University, the nation's largest university authorizer of charter public schools.

This week, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) presented the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) with the «Award for Excellence in Advancing Knowledge» for the Portrait of the Movement report at their Annual Leadership Conference.

We are committed to transparency in our practices and accountability to our students, parents, government authorizers, and the public at - large.

Caprice Young, founder of the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) and CEO of Magnolia Public Schools: «If I did a Lexus Nexus Google search of every abuse at every school district in the state of California, the list would be about 40 times that long... What I would say in response to (the ACLU report) is that charters are required to have their entire enrollment procedure approved by whoever their authorizer happens to be.

For large authorizers, who oversee 10 or more charter schools, the closure rate was even higher, at 14.7 percent.

CSDC board member and former Executive Director at the Center for Charter Schools James Goenner shepherded the development and growth of CMU into the largest university authorizer of charter schools in the country, for which it was recently saluted as the «gold standard» by The Center for Education Reform.

In a thoughtful essay that kicked off the current round of debate, Robin Lake said her colleagues at the Center for Reinventing Public Education were hearing that «charter authorizers are getting much choosier.»

It peaked in 2011 — 12 at roughly 18 apps per authorizer, and has fallen each year since to a low of about seven in 2015 — 16.

The NACSA / LISC Authorizer / Lender Working Group participants and I have presented some previews of this report at several investor conferences, and judging by the enthusiastic (and sometimes pointed) questioning, there's a real need for this dialogue to continue.

Lenders should know how state laws and authorizer practices hold charter schools accountable; look at every pertinent public record including intervention and probation notices; and ask their own tough questions about trends in academic performance and evidence of fiscal stewardship.

After approval by a local authorizer, the petition must be submitted to the Charter Schools Division at the Georgia Department of Education.

Authorizers, known as sponsors in the Buckeye State, are the gatekeepers of quality at a charter school's inception.

For lenders, we hope this publication will provide some understanding of the methods by which authorizers arrive at high - stakes decisions.

And starting next year, university authorizers expect nationally recognized charter school companies like KIPP and Rocketship Education to take a more active look at opening schools in Michigan.

«Authorizer Spotlight: How Philadelphia Put Annual Reports into Practice» provides an in - depth look at the process the Charter School Office of the School District of Philadelphia went through to implement annual reporting...