Resources Filtered by: Charter School Policy

This March 2012 brief from Mass Insight discusses reform lessons from top school leaders and the concept of “mini-districts” or community-based clusters of schools within large districts that are organized around a high school and its feeder schools, an approach related to the charter management organization model.

This January 2012 guide from New Schools for New Orleans (NSNO) focuses on lessons learned from school reform efforts in New Orleans. The guide provides historical context and detailed strategies for developing systems of charter school governance and accountability, building pools of leaders and teachers through training and recruitment, expanding successful schools and programs, generating demand for reform, raising funding, and planning for decentralization of schools.

This February 2012 report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools focuses on the challenges and strategies for success for charter schools in rural areas. The report includes detailed information about rural public school demographics, noting that rural public school enrollment increased 8 percent from 2006 to 2009 while suburban and urban enrollment remained flat. Policy recommendations also are included.

These filings in U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, Western Division, cover the positions of key parties in a dispute about the impact of charter schools on desegregation in the area of Little Rock, Arkansas.