Not exact matches
To its credit, the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers has begun to develop talent programs to
try and address the issue.
We're pulling together a working group of lenders and
authorizers who will
try to develop a common language for evaluating the viability of charter
schools.
M. Karega Rausch, the vice president for research and evaluation at the National Association of Charter
School Authorizers, said he thinks there has been an increase in the number of charter
schools that are «intentionally
trying to pursue diversity.»
If the applicant is an existing
school seeking a new
authorizer, VOA staff visit the
school and
try to talk to students, staff and parents.
When local officials in Chicago
tried to close three failing charters, the state charter
authorizer, which was envisioned and funded by the Walton Family Foundation, stepped in and stopped the city from closing the
schools.
Now, Nevada, North Carolina, Maine and Wisconsin are currently
trying to set up state - level charter
authorizers, according to Sarah Johnson, director of media and agency relations for the National Alliance for Public Charter
Schools.