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At the November 2012 Best Cooperative Practices: Charter and Traditional Public Schools Conference in Denver, Colorado, leaders of the Utah County Academy of Sciences in Orem, Utah, presented these rules for setting up partnerships.

This is the Tulsa, Oklahoma, charter-district collaboration compact, which was adopted and updated in 2012, and involves the city’s three charter schools. The compact, recognizing that “we have more in common than not” and that “high performing schools are not defined by their governance structure,” includes commitments on issues such as staffing, enrollment, facilities, funding, transportation, food service, and communication.

This website section of the School District of Philadelphia includes a copy of Philadelphia's Great Schools Compact, which outlines plans for collaboration involving city charter and district schools, the Mayor’s Office on Education, and the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

This is the Spring Branch, Texas, Charter-District Collaboration Compact announced in December 2011 as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation project to encourage cooperation between charter and district schools. The compact involves the Spring Branch Independent School District, KIPP Houston, and YES Prep Public Schools.