Resources Filtered by: Charter School Policy + Report

This April 3, 2012, majority opinion of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania -- involving a Philadelphia charter school, the city school district and the state department of education -- focuses on a dispute about what constitutes a charter school enrollment cap and the obligation to provide additional funding when a cap is exceeded.

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 May 2010 report from the Office for Education Policy at the University of Arkansas describes enrollment patterns by race and free or reduced lunch eligibility in Little Rock area charter schools and traditional public schools. The report includes data on student transfers and provides an assessment of the impact of charter schools on the general level of integration or segregation in the schools.

This January 2012 National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) report ranks and analyzes the charter school laws that are now in place in 41 states and the District of Columbia. The report, which is in its third edition, compares the laws to  NAPCS’s model law, highlights key changes in state laws, and provides profiles of each state law.