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Now in its third edition, the Maryland Charter School Founder's Manual, published by the Maryland Charter School Network, provides a thorough review of the various steps to plan, develop, and operate a charter school in Maryland. This latest edition includes a new chapter on high-quality charter schools.

This June 2011 report from the American Institutes for Research gauges the extent of Common Core State Standards implementation work in seven school districts across the country, including a charter school group in Arizona. The categories of information include curriculum and instruction, instructional leadership, professional development, and assessments.

This is a copy of the Maryland State Board of Education opinion supporting a waiver for Andrews Public Charter School of the requirement that a "public charter school be open to all students on a space available basis." The waiver, granted August 24, 2010, notes the school's plan to establish an enrollment ratio of 65 percent of students with parents assigned to the base and 35 percent of students with parents who are not assigned to the base, as well as the impact on base security forces and enrolllment in schools off the base.

Baltimore was among nine cities across the country where leaders developed agreements to work on collaboration between charter and traditional schools as part of an initiative supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A draft copy of Baltimore's District-Charter Collaboration Compact was provided to the National Charter School Resource Center by the Baltimore City Public Schools. The agreements were announced in December 2010.