Resources Filtered by: Charter Operations

These reports and materials commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and posted on the website of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools focus on helping charter school organizations understand and plan for the succession of school leaders. Included are a report and results of a survey of succession planning among charter management organizations, three case studies, and a succession planning self-assessment tool for charter school leaders and board members.

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.

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.

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.