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An online learning platform that offers courses, tools, and templates for authorizers at every level.

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.

The Office of Innovation and Incubation's work is aligned with NACSA's Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, a set of national best practice standards for authorizers to open and sustain high - quality schools.

Don't forget to bookmark our new ESSA for Authorizers page for updates and resources to help you during this critical transition period.

Make our new ESSA for Authorizers page your new go - to site for updates and resources aimed at supporting your work during this transition.

The Peninsula board also cited the upfront cost to prepare an application for authorizer status as another factor in its decision, Peninsula Superintendent Chuck Cuzzetto said Friday.

This document is a tool for authorizers who are working with education service providers.

Out today, NACSA's new roadmap for authorizers who oversee schools that serve kids in dire straits.

The transition to the Common Core presents significant challenges for authorizers when it comes to evaluating school performance.

Weak charter school applicants shop around for the authorizer with the lowest standards and easiest review processes.

It also increased accountability for authorizers.

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

NACSA crafted and published — and continues to refine — Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, universally recognized as the professional practices for authorizers.

Just as choice and competition are good for students and schools, choice and competition are good for authorizers.

Finally, recent legislation that created a ranking system for authorizers.

Accordingly, these schools often fail to perform well on standard measures of student achievement, making it difficult for authorizers to fairly and accurately assess their performance.

And a question for authorizers everywhere: Who thought that allowing scores of online charters was worth a go?

The good news is that it's common for authorizers to use parent or student satisfaction survey data as one of many pieces of information in school accountability plans.

This is the foundational text for authorizers, who are charged with promoting school quality through flexibility over inputs and accountability for outcomes.

In 2011, NACSA went a step further and culled from P&S a set of Essential Practices — recommended for all authorizers — that reflect the five domains of effective authorizing:

While it can be hard for authorizers to predict which charter schools will be effective, this only reinforces the importance of following up with accountability after approved schools open, to ensure that students are being well served.

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.

These are all far more effective avenues for authorizers to pursue in the name of equity than quotas.

For schools nearing the end of their current charter term, CEI can help prepare your renewal application, conduct mock school visits to prepare for your authorizer review, and address any issues raised by the authorizer required to gain charter renewal.

But on Thursday night, both boards said meeting the July 1 state deadline to apply for authorizer status would burden district staff members who are busy with other work.

Feb. 1, 2014: Closing date for authorizers to submit report of action to approve or deny charter school applications

In a new report from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), Mississippi received 26 out of a possible 33 points for authorizer quality and school accountability.

In fact, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers also offered a response to the report, and included some suggestions into the mix for authorizers that might need to step up their approach on this topic.

But by scrutinizing the financial health of the overall charter management organization, the district has tread into uncharted territory for an authorizer.

The purpose of this Issue Brief is to provide a practice - oriented resource for authorizers...

This toolkit is useful for any authorizer, regardless...

This template is intended for authorizers to use to keep a clear record of important criteria for existing schools in one place for easy comparison.

This Quick Reference for Authorizers is part of NACSA's series, Staying the Course, which provides guidance to authorizers in navigating the challenges presented by implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

This webinar discusses findings from an April 2017 Fordham Institute report, «Three Signs that a Proposed Charter School is at Risk of Failing» and its implications for authorizers.

If your state is changing assessments, or will allow LEAs to choose from a menu of high school assessments, this may create data challenges for authorizers in the short and long term.

We're hoping to marry the keen financial / operational analyses of underwriters with the performance frameworks NACSA develops for authorizers — and we just might come up with some tools both camps can use.

For authorizers needing to make high - stakes decisions, the lack of good data is a huge problem.

She doesn't believe it infringes on a school's autonomy for an authorizer like the Orleans Parish School Board to ensure a school is operating according to expectations.

Amy Ruck Kagan is the Vice President for Authorizer Engagement and Advancement at the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Nor did we know what actions were most important for authorizers to take to ensure a strong charter school sector.

Editor's note: The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) is a big deal for authorizers.

The State should provide for authorizer involvement, as appropriate, in the oversight and development of charter school Local Control and Accountability Plans to make them robust tools for autonomous charter school improvement and accountability.

CCSA's straightforward and transparent accountability framework provides all charter schools with tools to examine their individual performance, as well as to provide vitally important points of comparison to help a school contextualize its performance for its authorizer, families, and entire school community.

This resource is intended as a guide and template for authorizers to use in developing their own renewal application for use by schools seeking to renew their charter.

We will continue to develop plenty of best practice research and tools for authorizers and advocates, and we will continue to build on our wealth of knowledge from years of experience.

The more there are, the easier it is for bad charters to shop around for an authorizer that will let them stay open.

We need to pass thoughtful laws that create accountability for authorizers and districts.