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New from PPI | August 13, 2009
Why Charters Should Woo Teachers' Unions
By Jake Rosner
Over the past few days, we’ve seen a flurry of blog posts about quality-control of charter schools. Specifically, bloggers have focused on reforms that would make sure the best schools not only survive, but are replicated. To advance such ideas, however, it would help if reformers were to adopt an underappreciated approach: work with teachers’ unions.
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New from PPI | July 16, 2009
Stimulating School Reform
By Will Marshall
Education is mainly a local responsibility, but nowadays the strongest push for reforming our public schools is coming from Washington.
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New from PPI | May 8, 2009
Go, Canada!
By Mark Ribbing
Another educational entrepreneur gets much-deserved attention. Maybe our nation is finally deciding that letting urban school systems fail isn't such a great long-term strategy, after all. Plus, a few more thoughts on the odd geography of reform.
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New from PPI | May 7, 2009
Green Lights For Green Dot
By Mark Ribbing
The radical genius of Steve Barr, and the geography of urban school reform.
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Article | March 29, 2007
Get Mayors in the Schooling Game
By David Harris and Andrew J. Rotherham
The results in Indianapolis make clear that the "mayor as charter school authorizer" model has great potential to have a direct, positive impact on student learning.
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Policy Report | December 21, 2006
"Alternative" Charter School Authorizers
By Louann Bierlein Palmer
Louann Bierlein Palmer assesses the quality of alternative charter authorizers including independent state-level charter boards, higher education institutions, municipal offices and nonprofit groups.
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Opinion | April 7, 2006
Virtual Schools, Real Innovation
By Andrew J. Rotherham
Maintaining, and even broadening, support for public schools means embracing more diversity in how we provide public education and who provides it.
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Policy Report | December 20, 2005
Peaks & Valleys
By Todd Ziebarth
The ambitious and necessary task ahead for the Colorado charter school movement is to expand in scale without sacrificing its commitment to create high-quality public school options focused on raising the achievement levels of all students.
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Policy Report | October 4, 2005
Capital Campaign
By Sara Mead
The District of Columbia's charter movement is one of the nation's largest and most significant, yet it still faces challenges that policymakers and educators must address in order to fulfill their promise and truly become a national model of exemplary charter schooling.
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Policy Report | June 1, 2005
Chasing the Blues Away: Charter Schools Scale Up in Chicago
By Robin J. Lake and Lydia Rainey
With eight years of charter experience now under its belt, Chicago Public Schools has earned a well-deserved reputation for having one of the country's most thoughtful approaches to authorizing this new breed of independent public schools.
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Policy Report | February 15, 2005
Texas Roundup: Charter Schooling in the Lone Star State
By Nelson Smith
By providing more freedom at the top of the charter scale and more oversight at the bottom, Texas can enhance the contribution its charter sector is making to today's charter movement.
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Policy Report | February 1, 2005
A Tough Nut to Crack in Ohio: Charter Schooling in the Buckeye State
By Alexander Russo
Policymakers in Ohio should continue to support charter schools, which have the potential to expand educational opportunity for disadvantaged students, but they must also actively work to ensure that these schools are as much about quality as they are about choice for parents.
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Book Review | January 23, 2005
The Latest on Education: Middle Man
By Andrew Rotherham
That political tension between left and right is what makes Theodore Sizer's "The Red Pencil" interesting. Aside from being an unusual book about schooling produced by a keen mind, it's neither conveniently right nor left in a debate that usually breaks down, however simplistically and unproductively, along those lines.
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Policy Report | September 21, 2004
Fast Break in Indianapolis: A New Approach to Charter Schooling
By Bryan C. Hassel
Indianapolis is truly at the vanguard of educational innovation because they are taking the charter school idea in a
new direction. Mayor Bart Peterson is chartering public schools to expand educational opportunities for Indianapolis students.
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Policy Report | September 21, 2004
Seeds of Change in the Big Apple: Chartering Schools in New York City
By Robin J. Lake
In New York City and state, charter schools are
slowly gaining momentum through performance that
speaks for itself, and with quick action by authorizers
and charter advocates when schools fail.
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Policy Report | June 3, 2004
The Rugged Frontier: A Decade of Charter Schooling in Arizona
By Bryan C. Hassel and Michelle Godard Terrell
Arizona's charter experience over the past
decade has clearly shown the power and pitfalls of a relatively open chartering system.
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Speech | May 25, 2004
NYC Public Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's Remarks to the NY Charter School Association's Conference
"At their core, charter schools embody the three ingredients that are necessary for any successful school -- leadership, autonomy, and accountability."
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Policy Report | May 3, 2004
Ripples of Innovation: Charter Schooling in Minnesota, the Nation's First Charter School State
By Jon Schroeder
The first generation of policy development around charters and chartering was a constant stream of give and take -- as states, like Minnesota, learned from and expanded upon the initiatives of others. This report is intended to keep that ripple of good ideas going -- and growing.
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Transcript | July 18, 2003
From Margins to Mainstream: Building a Stronger Charter School Movement
Transcripts from PPI's charter school conference, "From Margins to Mainstream: Building a Stronger Charter School Movement," held July 17-18 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Policy Report | July 9, 2003
Catching the Wave: Lessons from California's Charter Schools
By Nelson Smith
The charter wave is still going strong in California. Whether it lifts all boats in the coming years depends on what policymakers do today.
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