National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

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A Growing Movement: Americas Largest Charter School Communities, Tenth Edition

In this report, the National Alliance collected public school enrollment data for the 2014-15 school year to identify communities across the country where the highest proportions of students were enrolled in charter public schools.

Getting Lost While Trying to Follow the Money

Tracking the special education dollars that support services for students with disabilities attending public schools is complicated; attempting to track the funds to autonomous public charter schools is even more so.

2015 State Legislative Session Highlights for Public Charter Schools

2015 has proved to be another successful year for public charter school legislation across the country.

Automatic Closure of Low-Performing Public Charter Schools, April 2015

This state policy snapshot provides an overview of automatic closure policies in the 15 states that have such laws in 2015, which is an increase of four states since we last released this snapshot in 2014.

Assessing the Increasing Strength of Charter Laws

The purpose of this report is to sync ratings from the multiple rankings reports to reflect changes in policy, not changes to our scoring rubrics and clarifications about existing policies.

Separation of Church and School: Guidance for Public Charter Schools Using Religious Facilities

This report is a guidebook to help charter school leaders and the advocates, attorneys, and others who support them navigate the increasingly complicated legal landscape surrounding public charter school use of a facility owned or operated by a religious organization

Chartering Turnaround: Leveraging Public Charter School Autonomy to Address Failure

The report provides case studies of three charter management organizations (CMOs) that have successfully restarted low-achieving public schools.

Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration

This comprehensive study points to state policies that create restrictions for collaboration between charter schools and pre-K, and also offers policy recommendations at the federal and state levels to improve the climate for high-quality charter schools to offer pre-K.

Publications

A Growing Movement: Americas Largest Charter School Communities, Tenth Edition

Getting Lost While Trying to Follow the Money

2015 State Legislative Session Highlights for Public Charter Schools

Automatic Closure of Low-Performing Public Charter Schools, April 2015

Assessing the Increasing Strength of Charter Laws

Separation of Church and School: Guidance for Public Charter Schools Using Religious Facilities

Chartering Turnaround: Leveraging Public Charter School Autonomy to Address Failure

Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration

State Laws on Weighted Lotteries and Enrollment Practices

The Hidden Connection in City-wide Reform: How Charter Schools Can Bring Equity to Public Education

National Public Charter Schools Commitment to Quality

State Policy Snapshot: Facilities Funding for Public Charter Schools