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Charter School Funding Considerations

Author : Christine Rienstra Kiracofe
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1648028357
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Charter School Funding Considerations written by Christine Rienstra Kiracofe and published by IAP. This book was released on 2022-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about how public schools in the United States are funded. However, missing in the current literature landscape is a nuanced discussion of funding as it relates to public charter schools. This text, authored by researchers and professionals working in the charter school world, provides readers with a comprehensive overview of issues related to the funding and operation of charter schools. The book opens with an introduction to charter schools and how they are funded. The financial management and oversight of charter schools and issues related to funding equity, including how charter schools impact district school finances, are addressed. Special considerations for charter schools related to serving special education students and transportation issues are also addressed. After reading this book, readers will have a thorough understanding of how charter schools are funded and managed financially.

The Charter School Roadmap

Author : Education Commission of the States
Publisher : Department of Education
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Charter School Roadmap written by Education Commission of the States and published by Department of Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To provide policymakers, practitioners, and other education leaders with the knowledge needed to consider the issues surrounding charter schools, a survey of these schools is offered. The text opens with an overview of charter-school basics, including the types of schools that are permissible and the legal status of charter schools. It analyzes the students served by charters and provides data on the total number of charter schools and the students attending them. How to sponsor a charter school, including the appeals process, is described, along with finance and fundraising, the funding approach, per-pupil expenditure, startup costs, facilities, temporary financial assistance, noninstructional services, and transportation. Issues of autonomy are described, such as waivers and control of budget, and information on oversight, renewal, and revocation is discussed. Details are also provided on teachers and staff, including teacher certification, salaries, pensions and benefits, and collective bargaining. Three appendices provide legislative examples of charters, list charter-school resources, and give a state-by-state analysis of charter-school laws. (RJM)

Charter School Funding in New York Perspectives on Parity with Traditional Public Schools

Author : Robin Jacobowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Charter School Funding in New York Perspectives on Parity with Traditional Public Schools written by Robin Jacobowitz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York State Charter Schools Act, passed in 1998, identifies a bundle of resources available to charter schools from a variety of local, state, and federal sources. The Act intends for these resources to provide adequate funding and support for the operation of charter schools. Specific resources include a per pupil payment for general operating support, additional state funding for special education, federal dollars driven by student population (e.g. No Child Left Behind Title I funding), as well as in-kind services from the school district in which the charter school resides. This bundle of local, state, and federal resources roughly mirrors the funding and support provided to traditional public schools. Yet since the passage of the Act, and since New York State?s first five charter schools opened their doors in the fall of 1999, charter school advocates and operators have argued that this funding is insufficient. Specifically, they have maintained that the resources that charter schools receive are less than the resources available to other public schools in the same school district-- at times asserting that this discrepancy is as large as 30%. They also claim that lack of parity is a disincentive to future charter school operators. While charter school operators argue the lack of parity in resources, school districts argue that charter schools already receive sufficient funding. This paper explores whether or not funding disparities exist and the magnitude of any such disparities. It begins with a listing of the public resources available to charter schools in New York State, then proceeds with several comparative analyses for charter and traditional public schools in New York City. This paper also finds that New York City charter schools have fewer public resources than traditional public schools. This funding disparity exists at all educational levels--elementary, middle, and high school--and for students in both general and special education. By identhese discrepancies, this paper provides legislators and policy makers with evidence and information to correct this disparity and place charter schools on equal financial footing with all other public schools in New York State. Contains 7 figures, and 4 appendices. A list of other reports and papers on Charter Schools research done by the institute is also provided. [This report was also produced by the Office of New Schools Development New York City Department of Education.].

School’s Choice

Author : Wagma Mommandi
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807779806
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book School’s Choice written by Wagma Mommandi and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access issues are pivotal to almost all charter school tensions and debates. How well are these schools performing? Are they segregating and stratifying? Are they public and democratic? Are they fairly funded? Can apparent successes be scaled up? Answers to all these core questions hinge on how access to charter schools is shaped. This book describes the incentives and pressures on charter schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate those pressures, explaining access-restricting practices in relation to the ecosystem within which charter schools are created. It also explains how charters have sometimes responded by resisting the pressures and sometimes by surrendering to them. The text presents analyses of 13 different types of practices around access, each of which shapes the school’s enrollment. The authors conclude by offering recommendations for how states and authorizers can address access-related inequities that arise in the charter sector. School’s Choice provides timely information on critical academic and policy issues that will come into play as charter school policy continues to evolve. Book Features: Examines how charter schools control who gains and retains access.Explores policies and practices that undermine equitable admission and encourage opportunity hoarding.Offers a set of policy recommendations at the state and federal level to address access-related issues.

Public Charter School Funding

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 9 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Public Charter School Funding written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charter Schools against the Odds

Author : Paul T. Hill
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817947637
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Charter Schools against the Odds written by Paul T. Hill and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds, and other ways. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools—and the children they serve—a fairer chance to succeed.

A Fifty State Legislative Review of Charter School Funding, Governance and Accountability

Author : Tionis Fordham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book A Fifty State Legislative Review of Charter School Funding, Governance and Accountability written by Tionis Fordham and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As waves of educational reform spread across the United States, charter schools continue to emerge as an alternative to the traditional public school. This study examined funding, governance, and accountability provisions of nationwide charter school legislation to ascertain similarities, differences, litigated challenges and funding issues throughout the United States of America. These legislative and case law findings can inform legislators, policy makers and school districts as they review and develop current legislative policies.

Where Charter School Policy Fails

Author : Amy Stuart Wells
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807777552
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Where Charter School Policy Fails written by Amy Stuart Wells and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative volume, Amy Stuart Wells and her co-authors provide evidence that the laissez-faire policies of charter school reform often exacerbate existing inequalities in our schools. Providing the most comprehensive, critical review of charter schools to date, this timely volume is based on the authors’ in-depth study of 10 urban, suburban, and rural school districts and 17 diverse charter schools in California, plus their analysis of other charter school studies from around the country. Focusing on two central issues—accountability and equity—they explore how charter school policies affect the lives of children, educators, and parents in diverse social, economic, and political contexts. The authors conclude that although the quality and experiences of charter schools is highly varied across different contexts, the laws that allow these schools to exist fail to assure meaningful accountability. Meanwhile, these policies increase inequality and stratification by pushing the educational system toward privatization in terms of finance and admissions while failing to target much-needed resources toward low-income communities. This dynamic book will help educators and policymakers develop a future policy agenda for charter school reform that will be more responsive to the needs of all children. “The authors, for the first time, make sense of the diverse and diffuse charter school ‘movement.’ They argue that the lack of support, the absence of equity provisions in state laws, and the burnout of many charter school personnel have led to the beginning of the end of this—yet another—school reform. This book provides important lessons for all who care about public education.” —Jean Anyon, Graduate Center, City University of New York

The Charter School Landscape

Author : Sandra Vergari
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980835
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Charter School Landscape written by Sandra Vergari and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2002-07-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools are publicly funded entities that enjoy freedom from many of the regulations under which traditional public schools operate. There are, however, state and local variations in charter school legislation and implementation. The Charter School Landscape is the first book to analyze and compare charter school politics and policies across a broad range of jurisdictions.The first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1992. Within nine years, there were more than 2,000 charter schools operating in thirty-four states, Washington, D.C., and Alberta, Canada. Public discourse on the charter school reform is often passionate and politically motivated. Sandra Vergari has assembled a group of experts to present a more reflective and scholarly discussion of the reform, its performance to date, and its implications for public policy.Each chapter focuses on a single state or province, and systematically addresses such issues as charter school laws, the politics of policy implementation, charter school accountability, controversies and trends, and prospects for the future. In addition, the contributors emphasize significant issues specific to each state that offer lessons for analysts and policymakers everywhere. As a whole, The Charter School Landscape suggests that charter schools are having a significant impact on the institution of public education and how we think about the concept of the "real public school."

Charter School Funding

Author : Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, Washington, DC.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Charter School Funding written by Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, Washington, DC. and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the controversies swirling around the nation's charter schools, none is more hotly contested than the debate over funding. Charter opponents charge that these autonomous public schools are draining scarce resources from public school districts. Proponents, by contrast, complain that charter schools do not get their fair share of public education dollars. Despite all the controversy around this issue, however, there has been little research about how much public revenue actually goes to charter schools. To remedy that lack of information, this study examines charter school funding in 16 states and the District of Columbia, jurisdictions that collectively enroll 84 percent of the nation's charter school students, according to the Center for Education Reform (CER). Within each of those states, the study also investigates charter school funding in one to three large districts, 27 districts in all. The four major findings of this study are: (1) Charter schools overall are significantly underfunded relative to district schools; (2) Funding discrepancies are even wider in most big urban school districts; (3) The chief culprit is charter schools' lack of access to local and capital funding; and (4) Quality data are often unavailable. Appended are: (1) Methodology; (2) Sources and Informants; and (3) Research Team. (Contains 14 tables and 323 endnotes.) [This report was produced by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute; Progress Analytics Institute; and Public Impact. Financial assistance for this report was also provided by the Walton Family Foundation.].

Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement

Author : Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807741986
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Assessing the Charter School Movement written by Joseph Murphy and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how charter schools have changed in the years since their development, looks at their role in educational reform, and provides background information and details for the future of chartering.

The Charter School Challenge

Author : Bryan C. Hassel
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815719939
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Charter School Challenge written by Bryan C. Hassel and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools have become a national phenomenon, garnering praise from both Democrats and Republicans. Because they appear to sidestep both political stalemate and the practical difficulty of implementing widespread change--the traditional barriers to improvement in American public education--charter schools hold great promise as an educational reform. Now, with charter laws on the books in more than thirty states, Bryan Hassel investigates whether charter schools have been able to avoid the pitfalls that have tripped up so many other "revolutionary" school reforms. After a broad overview of how charter laws have been adopted nationwide, this book focuses in depth on charter schools in Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Michigan. Hassel reviews the four states' implementation of charter laws and whether their programs are providing sufficient autonomy, resources, and potential to influence the broader education system--all essential components for charter schools' success. He concludes that if states want to give charter schools a full test, they should empower nonlocal entities to approve charter schools, establish the schools as distinct local entities, allow full per-pupil funding to go with students to the charter schools, and impose minimal constraints on the source and number of charter schools. The schools themselves will need to improve their infrastructure, and charter-granting agencies will have to rebuild the systems for monitoring schools' academic results and compliance with regulations. These policies are vital if charter schools are to realize their potential as a significant educational reform.

Venturesome Capital: State Charter School Finance Systems

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428962263
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Venturesome Capital: State Charter School Finance Systems written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charter Schools

Author : Deb Yoder
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452031835
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Charter Schools written by Deb Yoder and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-01-23 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools are public schools that may be started by anyone willing to do the work and who can get approval from a chartering authority. Over the last ten years, charter schools have popped up all over the nation. These schools are officially public schools, but there are a few differences. Charters are the epitome of local control. They offer a much wider variety of choices to parents and students than do the traditional public schools. In their years of being directly involved in charter school teaching and administration, Deb and Judy have seen the excitement these schools have brought to education, but they have also found a few unsettling pitfalls that need to be avoided to insure charter school success. They have compiled their thoughts and experiences with the intention of publishing a book for charter school boards and principals. This book could also be of assistance to those groups that are interested in starting a charter school or joining the charter school community. Deb and Judy hope that sharing the lessons they have learned can help others to avoid some common mistakes that have been made early in the charter school movement.

Charter Challenges

Author : Hawaiʻi Educational Policy Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Charter Challenges written by Hawaiʻi Educational Policy Center and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report is the first in a series examining the policy issues relating to charter schools in Hawai'i. It addresses the overall challenges to charter schools, the law establishing a charter funding formula, a new program area of the state budget, fringe benefits, and issues needing clarification and resolution. The purpose of this series of Policy Reports is to identify some of the most serious policy issues facing charter schools and highlight areas of dispute that policy makers may want to consider for clarification in the law/policy. Recent amendments to the charter school funding law are appended.

Making Money Matter

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309172888
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Making Money Matter written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States annually spends over $300 billion on public elementary and secondary education. As the nation enters the 21st century, it faces a major challenge: how best to tie this financial investment to the goal of high levels of achievement for all students. In addition, policymakers want assurance that education dollars are being raised and used in the most efficient and effective possible ways. The book covers such topics as: Legal and legislative efforts to reduce spending and achievement gaps. The shift from "equity" to "adequacy" as a new standard for determining fairness in education spending. The debate and the evidence over the productivity of American schools. Strategies for using school finance in support of broader reforms aimed at raising student achievement. This book contains a comprehensive review of the theory and practice of financing public schools by federal, state, and local governments in the United States. It distills the best available knowledge about the fairness and productivity of expenditures on education and assesses options for changing the finance system.

Charter School Operations and Performance

Author : Ron W. Zimmer
Publisher : Rand Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Charter School Operations and Performance written by Ron W. Zimmer and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California. Four specific research questions were investigated: (1) What population of students attends charter schools? (2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools? (3) What oversight and support do the chartering authorities provide? (4) How do charter schools differ from their conventional public school counterparts in terms of their operation, including finances, academic achievement, and staffing?