Who Authorizes

WHO AUTHORIZES?

We’ve been spending a lot of time asking some important questions about how to keep providing high quality education opportunities: What role does innovation play? How should we measure school quality?

But it’s also important to stop and ask who is doing the work of authorizing.

As authorizing develops, those with high-quality portfolios are focused on their leadership, commitment and judgment.

TYPES OF AUTHORIZERS

LEGEND

LEA: Local Education Agency
SEA: State Education Agency
ICB: Independent Chartering Board
HEI: Higher Education Institution
NFP: Nonprofit Organization
NEG: Non-Educational Government Entity

FIGURE 01

GROWTH ACROSS ALMOST EVERY
AUTHORIZER TYPE

FIGURE 02

The average number of schools per authorizer grew
in almost every authorizer type

FIGURE 03

PROPORTION OF SCHOOLS OVERSEEN BY TYPE

After several decades of charter schooling and authorizing, authorizing continues to
grow, mature, &
professionalize

Read more about what great authorizers do differently to achieve stellar outcomes.

QUALITY PRACTICE PROJECT
QPP is the first-of-its-kind research that is an important step toward developing a more evidence-informed connection between practices and outcomes.