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What are the nation's best charter school authorizers doing differently to achieve great outcomes within their communities?

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Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

Kim said the only appropriate oversight is that done by Success» authorizer, the SUNY Charter Schools Institute.

If the integrity of the chartering strategy is to be upheld, authorizers need to do a better job of closing schools that fail to deliver results for students.

The demographic and political characteristics of a state and character of the state law authorizing charter schools undoubtedly matter in some way for the fate of charter schools in a state, but most decisions about charter school formation and attendance are made within school districts — by founders who decide to start a new school, by authorizers who empower them to do so, and, ultimately, by parents who decide to enroll their students.

Behind the Headline Authorizers: See What Replacing Failing Charter Schools, Replicating Great Ones Can Do 3/19/13 Education Next

• Manage the actions of the dozen charter authorizers, the Detroit Public Schools, and the Educational Achievement Agency to make sure schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something Schools, and the Educational Achievement Agency to make sure schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something schools that don't meet a quality bar are closed and replaced with something better.

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.

So if the charter board, local authorizer, and parents think a school is doing a good job even if test scores look «bad,» we should defer to them.

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).

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

Similarly, Osborne's swift critique of policies allowing multiple charter authorizers to operate in one area doesn't engage with the legitimate concern that a single - authorizer environment can constrain school supply, homogenize offerings, and concentrate too much power in one government body.

This is not to say that authorizers don't have a role to play in creating stronger standards for alternative - school accountability — only that the state is responsible for creating the framework.

Authorizers, not SEA staff, would hold those schools accountable, and they would do it in a nuanced way — by crafting school - specific performance contracts with each.

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

If the school isn't financially sustainable, then do we really need the authorizer to shut it down?

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.

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 an authorizer perspective, so long as a school does not have significantly negative test scores, perhaps the school should be able to expand so long as there is parent demand.

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).

Districts aren't really designed to give individual schools full autonomy, nor are they staffed to serve as authorizers, nor do most districts provide full school choice to their families.

RH: How do you think about the relationship with Greg Richmond and the National Association of Charter School Authorizers?

Even some charter school advocates say charter sponsors, or «authorizers,» aren't doing enough to oversee existing charters and weed out bad operators.

Some authorizers do great work (e.g. the District of Columbia's Public Charter School Board, the Massachusetts Department of Education and the State University of New York) but too many others display mixed motives, are influenced by perverse incentives, and lack judgment, courage, or expertise.

Much has been done to make authorizing a rigorous undertaking — witness the work of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

It has an authorizer, DCPCSB, * that does not operate schools.

And what does it mean for Cincinnati, say, to be responsible for educating a child who is enrolled in the Ohio Virtual Academy or in a charter school operated by a New York firm and supervised by a Toledo - based authorizer?

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.

Authorizers should differentiate between schools doing a really poor job with special education and those looking to do things differently.

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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).

Charter schools and authorizers have the luxury of defining whom they will be responsible for; kids who don't get into charter schools or are pushed out of them for some reason are no longer the school's — or the sector's — responsibility.

Or conversely, are states and authorizers implicitly or explicitly deciding they do not need to hold charter schools accountable for equitable access and quality programs for students with disabilities?

As Massachusetts has done, authorizers can focus on level of effort, tracking recruitment and marketing strategies to make sure schools are known to families and open and welcoming to students with special needs.

«I don't think there's any major benefit to the Sequim school board being an authorizer right now.»

If the school board did choose to do so, it would need to apply by July 1 to become an authorizer.

A lot of good work has been done in this area but much more needs to be done and ideally it should be a joint project between our schools and their authorizers.

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.

And most authorizers don't place as much value on the new and innovative teaching models, school culture, and community involvement, as they do on test scores.

«The development of statewide chartering commissions or boards where this is all they do is likely the best structure to ensure quality within the charter school sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School Authorschool sector,» said Greg Richmond, the president and chief executive officer of the National Association of Charter School AuthorSchool Authorizers.

Charter schools are already held to high standards by their authorizers, and if they do not perform on task, there are very real consequences.

Richmond tells me that while he whole - heartedly agrees some authorizers have gone too far in regulating charter schools, many don't go far enough.

In Michigan, DeVos» home state — the state with the most for - profit charter management organizations — education research has found that most charter authorizers did a poor job of monitoring quality in the schools.

So, if approval rates are steady, but overall growth is down, does that mean authorizers are shutting down so many schools that they're crimping overall growth?

Supporting Dr. Noguera's view of authorizing, even when he made decisions that didn't sit well with charter school opponents, would keep an ally who knows how to toe the line in the authorizer's chair.

The state and the district level charter authorizers need to do their due diligence and make sure these school are not free to act a private schools with public money just as TPSs are required to be accountable.

What ought authorizers do to ensure that the charter schools they approve provide a quality education to students with disabilities who enroll in their school?

University authorizers, which are behind most of the charter schools in Michigan, could have opened many more schools this year than they did.

The second thing great authorizers do is build the capacity to charter schools, oversee and support their operations, and evaluate their performance in a top - quality manner.

It provides some common reasons for becoming an authorizer, some examples of benefits to universities that have chosen to do this, and a brief overview of resources that are available to help an Idaho university successfully launch a charter schools office.