This is the genius of
effective charter school authorizers that look at a school's big picture as well as its scores.
Not exact matches
To be
effective, these
authorizers must want to be in the
charter schooling business, need to have the resources and staff to do the work, and must be committed to the idea of
charter school autonomy.
But they offer preliminary lessons from which the authors drew recommendations for existing
school boards and
authorizers to make
charter school restart an
effective and replicable strategy.
And there are steps that
charter operators,
authorizers, and city - based organizations can take right now to make sure that
charter schools have
effective teachers in all classrooms to start the
school year.
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.
I'm not sure I can prove it with hard data, but it sure seems clear to me that the cities and states with some of the highest - performing
charter schools (Boston, Washington, D.C., New York State, Tennessee) are also home to some of the most thoughtful and
effective authorizers.
Mr. Richmond argues that most districts are ill - equipped to be
effective charter authorizers, and may have a bias against approving them, fearing competition and the potential loss of aid for students who leave the regular
school system.
The National Association of
Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is an independent voice for effective charter school policy and thoughtful charter authorizing practices that lead to more great public s
Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is an independent voice for effective charter school policy and thoughtful charter authorizing practices that lead to more great public sc
School Authorizers (NACSA) is an independent voice for
effective charter school policy and thoughtful charter authorizing practices that lead to more great public s
charter school policy and thoughtful charter authorizing practices that lead to more great public sc
school policy and thoughtful
charter authorizing practices that lead to more great public s
charter authorizing practices that lead to more great public
schools.