Resources Filtered by: Report + Charter Operations

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Fool’s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood

This 2000 report from the Alliance for Childhood covers a range of issues regarding technology and the impact on children’s education, including creativity, critical thinking, health, and social development.

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Learning From Charter School Management Organizations: Strategies for Student Behavior and Teacher Coaching

This March 2012 report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education and Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. -- part of a series of studies assessing the impact of charter management organizations (CMOs) on student achievement and identifying effective practices -- focuses on the association with success of high expectations for student behavior and close supervision and coaching of teachers.

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Building a Grad Nation: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic

This March 2012 report from Civic Enterprises, Everyone Graduates Center, America’s Promise Alliance, and the Alliance for Excellent Education notes that high school graduation rates increased by modest to large amounts in 24 states.

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Walton Family Foundation Education Grants List, 2011

This is a list released by the Walton Family Foundation of its 2011 grants for education initiatives grants totaling $159 million, which the foundation stated was the largest amount it had granted for a single year.

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Comparison of the Charter School Programs Appropriations language for FY 10, 11, & 12 (Federal Funding)

This document from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools provides a comparison over three years of U.S. Department of Education Charter Schools Program funding and includes breakdowns of funding streams within the overall program. Total funding for the program for 2012 is $255,519,000, the same amount as 2011.

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Broad Agency Announcement, NSA (MEPP), Grant Opportunity

This Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) sets forth research areas of interest to the National Security Agency (NSA). The NSA's Mathematics Education Partnership Program is soliciting grants or cooperative agreements in the area of promoting the study of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) to K-12 students and the area of teacher education, with the objective of providing supplemental training for elementary and secondary teachers.

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Profiles of For-Profit and Nonprofit Education Management Organizations: Thirteenth Annual Report, 2010-2011

This January 2012 report from the National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado Boulder describes the landscape of educational management companies (EMOs) across the country and their role with charter schools. The number of states where EMOs operate expanded from 2010 to 2011, with 35 percent of all charter schools being operated by an EMO and almost 42 percent of all charter school students attending those schools. Breakdowns by state and EMO size are provided.

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Federal Grants Aid Health Care Project at Charter School

Two grants from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) that together total about $2.3 million are being used to expand health care services at a clinic at a California charter school and help train nurses and other care providers.

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Quantity Counts: The Growth of Charter School Management Organizations

This 2007 report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education reviews the strategies utilized by management organizations and the challenges they face as they work to scale up high-quality charter schools.

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Keeping Pace With K-12 Online Learning 2011: An Annual Review of Policy and Practice

This annual report, produced by a consortium, tracks the growth of the online learning movement and associated state policies. The report contains a great deal of data and policy approaches used by the states. Although virtual charter schools are not addressed separately, information and trends about multi-district fully-online programs as well as for-profit Education Management Organizations (EMOs) are discussed.