The
consensus appears to be that these higher levels of performance have
less to do with policy than with everything else: the «ecosystem» of reform in a given place (
usually a city) and its network of «human - capital providers,» expert charter - management organizations, leadership - development programs, school - incubator efforts, local funders and civic leaders, etc. — in other words, what conservatives like to call «civil society»: the space between the government and the individual (in this case, between government and individual schools).