Download or read book Accountability Framework for NYC Charter Schools written by New York (N.Y.). Education, Department of and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charter Schools and Accountability in Public Education written by Paul T. Hill and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today. At the heart of these matters is a contested question of accountability. To survive, charter schools must make and keep promises about what students will experience and learn under their purview. However, unlike public schools, charter schools do not rely exclusively on their relationship with school districts. They must also look to parents, teachers, and donors to cooperatively establish expectations of a particular school and its mission. Aimed toward elected officials, school reform activists, and educators, this book is the result of the first national-scale study of charter school accountability. The authors researched one hundred-fifty schools and sixty authorizing agencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Michigan. These states contain the majority of charter schools that have been operating for three years or more and represent the major differences in state charter school legislation. The authors include interviews from a range of participants in the field©¡from state legislators and administrators to principals, teachers, and parents. In assessing the structure of accountability as it works internally to bolster external confidence, Hill and Lake suggest the struggle of charter schools actually complements those of standards based reform. Both seek to transform public education to make schools responsible for performance, not compliance.
Download or read book Guidelines for Creating an Accountability Plan written by Charter Schools Institute (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Educational Accountability written by Kenneth A. Leithwood and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has developed a framework for accountability in response to the following five issues: who is accountable, to whom, for what, at what level, and with what consequences.
Download or read book How Do Board Trustees Administrators and Faculty in a Chicago Charter School Make Sense of Their Current Internal Accountability Framework and Its Possible Connection to Their Charter Renewal Efforts written by Sheila Polk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Efforts in School Reform written by Sherrie Reed and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a public perception that schools in the U.S. are failing to provide equal opportunities for all students and to ensure student attainment will meet the demands of the U.S. workforce, "reform of America's public schools" has dominated education rhetoric and policy over the last three decades. Efforts to reform America's schools are abundant and diverse. The three papers included in this dissertation explore three specific reform efforts: accountability, school climate and fiscal flexibility. The first paper in this dissertation examines charter school accountability in California. In 2011, the California Charter Schools Association launched an annual publication of Academic Accountability Report Cards for each charter school in the state and a public call for the closure of charter schools not meeting criteria outlined on the report cards. In examining the CCSA accountability framework, I find merit in critics' claims. The CCSA framework does not identify low-performing charter schools not already identified under existing accountability systems and potentially identifies charter schools serving primarily disadvantaged students. Overwhelming evidence indicating the positive relationship between school climate and students' mental and physical health, social-emotional well-being and academic performance has led to the inclusion of school climate reform efforts in a range of school improvement initiatives, including New Tech Network. The second paper in this dissertation examines perceptions of school climate for more than 10,000 students enrolled in 72 New Tech Network schools. Although students' perceptions differ across NTN schools, size of student body, year of implementation, type of model implementation, and diversity of the school explain little of the variation in students' perceptions. In fact, students' perceptions of school climate vary more among individual students within a school than between students in different schools. In NTN schools, male students have more positive perceptions of their relationships with peers than female students. Further, Asian and Hispanic students report more positive perceptions of connectedness to school, fair and enforced discipline and peer relationships than African American, white and multi-racial students. The third paper in this dissertation, also published in the Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform in August 2015, investigates resource allocation practices, including savings, of charter schools in California using nine years of data. Findings indicate charter schools spend less on instruction and pupil support services than traditional public schools. The lower spending on instruction and pupil support is offset, not by administrative costs, but by higher spending on operations, consultant services and a greater rate of savings. Further, analysis indicates that the differences in resource allocation patterns between charter schools and traditional public schools is not completely explained by the characteristics of students served.
Download or read book Charter School Accountability written by Chester E. Finn (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration into charter schools; what they are, who they serve, and how successful they are.
Download or read book D C charter schools strengthening monitoring and process when schools close could improve accountability and ease student transitions report to congressional committees written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of Charter School Accountability written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how the relationships of charter schools with authorizers affect their day-to-day operations and how they develop relationships of trust and confidence with parents, teachers, and other community members.
Download or read book Charter Schools Performance and Accountability written by Gerald Watkins Bracey and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Infrastructure of Accountability written by Dorothea Anagnostopoulos and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Infrastructure of Accountability brings together leading and emerging scholars who set forth an ambitious conceptual framework for understanding the full impact of large-scale, performance-based accountability systems on education. Over the past 20 years, schools and school systems have been utterly reshaped by the demands of test-based accountability. Interest in large-scale performance data has reached an unprecedented high point. Yet most education researchers focus primarily on questions of data quality and the effectiveness of data use. In this bold and thought-provoking volume, the contributors look beneath the surface of all this activity to uncover the hidden infrastructure that supports the production, flow, and use of data in education, and explore the impact of these large-scale information systems on American schooling. These systems, the editors note, “sit at the juncture of technical networks, work practices, knowledge production, and moral order.
Download or read book The Accountability Report written by Jeanne Allen and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study of Charter School Accountability written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Education presents "A Study of Charter School Accountability" in PDF and Microsoft Word formats. The June 2001 report discusses the issues of accountability that effect charter schools, which are a new type of public school. The schools are open to all students and must meet state standards, however charter schools have more freedoms and burdens than conventional public schools.
Download or read book Choices and Challenges written by Priscilla Wohlstetter and published by Harvard Education Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As charter schools enter their third decade, research in this key sector remains overwhelmingly contradictory and confused. Many studies are narrowly focused; some do not meet the standards for high-quality academic research. In this definitive work, Wohlstetter and her colleagues isolate and distill the high-quality research on charter schools to identify the contextual and operational factors that influence these schools’ performances. The authors examine the track record of the charter sector in light of the wide range of goals set for these schools in state authorizing legislation—at the classroom level, the level of the school community, and system-wide. In particular, they show how the evolution of the charter movement has shaped research questions and findings. By highlighting what we know about the conditions for success in charter schools, the authors make a significant contribution to current debates in policy and practice, both within the charter sector and in the larger landscape of public education.
Download or read book Improving School Accountability Check Ups or Choice written by Timothy J. Gronberg and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together ten papers by researchers who tackle economic issues surrounding school accountability reforms. The papers in this volume employ relevant microeconomic analysis and econometric techniques to provide an understanding of the vital economic and public policy issues. It is aimed at researchers in business, economics, and other fields.
Download or read book Increasing Charter School Accountability Through Interventions and Closures written by Joey Gustafson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A basic premise of charter school reform in public education is offering more autonomy in the use of funds and the design of curriculum in exchange for greater accountability in academic and financial outcomes. This premise poses a significant policy challenge for state policymakers to establish an appropriate level of regulation; charter schools must be sufficiently independent yet still conform to most state and federal education and financial management laws. This guide examines the laws, policies, and programs that states use to establish consequences for financial mismanagement in charter schools. It discusses how states define the financial conditions for intervention. It also describes the approaches to corrective actions for deficient charter schools and the procedures for closing charter schools. The guide reviews the prevalent policy options and provides examples from existing state laws and practices. It also raises issues that state policymakers may want to consider when adopting or amending approaches to establishing consequences for charter school financial mismanagement. Specifically, this guide will help state policymakers consider the various policy options for defining financial conditions for state intervention, determining appropriate corrective actions for deficient schools, and establishing procedures for closing schools. The guide concludes by stating that policymakers must create appropriate oversight procedures and processes for intervention and closure that are clear, fair, and effective. (Contains 4 footnotes and a list of resources.) [This publication was written with Nina Salomon and William Schmid and produced by the National Resource Center on Charter School Finance and Governance, a collaborative effort of the Center on Educational Governance at the University of Southern California, The Finance Project, and WestEd.].
Download or read book Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charter schools are publicly funded but operate outside the regulatory framework and collective bargaining agreements characteristic of traditional public schools. In return for this freedom, charter schools are subject to heightened accountability. This paper estimates the impact of charter school attendance on student achievement using data from Boston, where charter schools enroll a growing share of students. We also evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools. These schools have some of the independence of charter schools, but operate within the school district, face little risk of closure, and are covered by many of same collective bargaining provisions as traditional public schools. Estimates using student assignment lotteries show large and significant test score gains for charter lottery winners in middle and high school. In contrast, lottery-based estimates for pilot schools are small and mostly insignificant. The large positive lottery-based estimates for charter schools are similar to estimates constructed using statistical controls in the same sample, but larger than those using statistical controls in a wider sample of schools. The latter are still substantial, however. The estimates for pilot schools are smaller and more variable than those for charters, with some significant negative effects"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
