2022 Change Makers
…high quality programs. Authorizing has truly come “full circle” from where I began in terms of wanting high-quality choices, access, and opportunity for Black and Brown children. As an equity…
…high quality programs. Authorizing has truly come “full circle” from where I began in terms of wanting high-quality choices, access, and opportunity for Black and Brown children. As an equity…
…find the data stimulating and the commentaries informative. Lauren Morando Rhim, Ph.D. Executive Director and Co-Founder, National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools I commend NACSA for asking charter…
…quality of charter schools is at the center of a new digital campaign launched today by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA). Authorizers are the entities that decide…
…maybe it’s the governance. So in each place that you go, where do we make these corrections to this work? I [kept] coming back to the public, [kept] coming back…
…percent, compared to 45.5 percent in the Gary Community School Corporation. End-of-Course Assessment pass rate: 28.3 percent, compared to 36.8 percent in the Gary Community School Corporation. From the school’s…
…it is opened for amendments that may do more perceived harm to the law than the hoped for positive change. Opening a section of the code to, for example, align…
…is measured in different ways (quality v. compliance): the guide distinguishes between compliance standards (met or not met) and standards measured along a quality continuum. This approach allows authorizers to…
…a low-performing charter school? The absence of clear expectations for authorizers While NACSA’s Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing outlines the attributes of a high-quality authorizer, state policy…
…past month never should have been approved to open in the first place, or the boards of these schools should not have tried to start the new school year. It’s…
…of high-quality authorizing and are joining NACSA in our efforts to support policies and practices that promote it. More and more districts—the vast majority of authorizers—are coming to see that…