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What Works Clearinghouse is an comprehensive online source for education best practices and evaluations of current education research.

The 2011 report Condition of Education 2004 defines 50 indicators for summarizing recent and important developments in U.S. education. These indicators cover the areas of persistence, student achievement, and the learning environment. Information on charter schools can be found in the sections on enrollment and public school characteristics.

The Charter Schools Program (CSP) of the U.S. Department of Education has updated its nonregulatory guidance. The document clarifies or adds to guidance involving allowable expenses, lottery exemptions, school governing boards’ relationships with for-profit management organizations, factors that determine whether a school is new or an expansion, and the relationship between public charter schools and private schools.

This 2008 article from The Education Innovator, a U.S. Department of Education newsletter, describes the conversion of a Georgia elementary school serving a large Marine Corps base from a traditional public school to a magnet school, and then to a charter school, which earned a Blue Ribbon Schools award in 2007.