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9 May 2018
ESSA

ESSA │Charter Schools and School Choice

While state policy shapes the school choice landscape within individual states, there is a long history of federal support for choice options at the state and local levels. The Every Student Succeeds Act continues this support. Specifically, ESSA updates and expands the federal Charter Schools Program and the federal Magnet Schools Assistance Program. As competitive grant competitions first authorized in 1994 and 1984 respectively, these programs provide funding to support the creation and continuation of high quality magnet and charter schools. In addition to these programs, ESSA provides increased flexibility, especially regarding the use of federal funding. This increased flexibility positions states, districts, and key stakeholders with an historic opportunity to develop, revise, and/or refine school choice efforts and activities.

AIR has a history, reputation, and track record for supporting states, districts, and stakeholders with school choice efforts and activities. Additionally, our team of technical assistance providers draws on the expertise of our many national centers and internationally-renowned experts—in education, as well as in related fields like health and the workforce.  

Key Resources
  • Teacher Value-added in Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools
  • Identifying South Carolina Charter Schools that are “Beating the Odds”
  • Leadership Characteristics and Practices in South Carolina Charter Schools
  • Study of Funding Provided to Public Schools and Public Charter Schools in Maryland
  • A New Approach to School Turnaround: Charter Operators Managing District Schools
AIR Centers with Related Content

AIR operates a number of national, regional, and state centers that produce publicly available resources. The centers that have a specific focus on charter schools and school choice are as follows:

  • Center on Great Teachers and Leaders
  • College and Career Readiness and Success Center

 

Related Work

7 May 2018
Blog Post

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Tracking Teacher Effectiveness Gaps Between Charter Schools and Traditional Public Schools

Are teachers working in charter schools more effective in improving student outcomes compared to teachers working in traditional public schools? In this blog post, Umut Özek, a principal researcher at AIR, describes a new study in which he and his fellow authors examined the disparities in teacher effectiveness between charter schools and traditional public schools in Florida.
Topic: 
Education, Charter Schools and School Choice, Teacher Preparation and Performance
1 Apr 2018
Journal Article

Taking Stock of Private School Choice: Lessons Learned from Indiana

The Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, launched in 2011, offers a rich opportunity to study how a large-scale tuition-voucher program works and to analyze the results it has produced in its first few years. This article describes the results of a four-year study of the Indiana program.
Topic: 
Education, Charter Schools and School Choice
22 Jun 2016
Report

Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Implementation

The Intensive Partnership initiative is based on the premise that efforts to improve instruction can benefit from high-quality measures of teaching effectiveness. The present report summarizes the implementation of the initiative from 2010 through 2014, and it should be of interest to researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who want to understand the potential benefits and challenges of adopting new teacher-evaluation systems and related reforms.
Topic: 
Education, Teacher Preparation and Performance

Further Reading

  • Navigating ESSA with the AIR Co-Pilot: 13 Key Resources
  • State Accountability Under ESSA: Fall 2017 Submissions
  • ESSA │Low-Performing Schools
  • Up for Vote #5: Rethinking the Role of Pre-K in ESEA Sequel
  • Three Decades of Education Reform: Are We Still "A Nation at Risk?"
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