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This guide, from the National Resource Center on Charter School Finance & Governance  examines the laws, policies, and programs that states use to establish financial mismanagement in charter schools and the various approaches taken toward corrective action.  The report is one in a series of state policy guides on charter school finance and governance and reviews the policies and procedures in 40 states and the District of Columbia.

In this report, Education Sector examines the successes and failures of charter school policies in a variety of states. The authors connect the lessons learned in those states to policy recommendations that will improve the quality of charter schools.

This January 2011 report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is the organization's second annual national ranking of charter school laws. The report analyzes the country’s 41 state charter laws (including Washington, D.C.), comparing them to the 20 essential components of the Alliance’s model law. The report covers the legislative actions of states in connection with the U.S. Department of Education’s Race to the Top program.

States should expand charter school autonomy by waiving most rules that apply to regular public schools, while authorizers should "think twice" before imposing broad policies and schools should "negotiate aggressively" on issues of freedom.
So counsels the executive summary of an April 2010 report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact. The study assesses the extent to which state law and authorizers impact charter school autonomy, finding that, on average, states earn a B- for the freedom conferred on their charter schools.