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This March 2013 report from the Public Impact and Thomas B. Fordham Institute offers analysis of the quality of charter schools in five cities: Albany, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Cleveland, Ohio; Denver, Colorado; and Indianapolis, Indiana. The report, using data for the 2010-2011 school year, covers comparisons with traditional public schools, the record of performance among charter schools, and issues driving charter school closure and expansion.

This 2011-12 Fordham Sponsorship Accountability Report reviews the performance of the charter schools authorized by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.  The report provides profiles of each of the eight schools and tables showing performance on a range of indicators, including adequate yearly progress, school management, and governance. The report describes the organization’s approach to accountability and its standards for school effectiveness. Also included is a detailed examination of Edison Schools, Inc.’s, experience operating a Dayton, Ohio, charter school.

This is Ohio’s Amended Substitute Senate Bill 316, which was signed into law by the governor on June 25, 2012, and involves changes impacting charter schools, including an increase from two to five in the number of start-up school governing boards on which an individual can serve; a requirement for revision by the state education board of operating standards to accommodate blended learning programs; a delay until 2015-2016 for a requirement for core subject teachers at low-performing schools to take cont

Ohio law was changed in 2011 to specifically allow two or more community schools (charter schools) to be located in the same facility. The new provision of the “Specification of use and acquisition of facilities” section of the law recognized a practice already in place in Ohio. As of March 2012, there were 27 collocations in the state, with 11 sharing a building with a traditional public school and 16 involving two or three charter schools sharing a site, according to the Ohio Department of Education.