Charter Accountability for District-Run Schools: Using ESSA to Create Contract-Based Accountability for Urban Public Education

Autor/in	Smarick, Andy
Institution	National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; Bellwether Education Partners
Titel	Charter Accountability for District-Run Schools: Using ESSA to Create Contract-Based Accountability for Urban Public Education
Quelle	(2016), (32 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Accountability; Federal Legislation; Educational Legislation; School Districts; Urban Schools; Public Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Governance; Participative Decision Making; School District Autonomy; Role; Government Role; Institutional Autonomy; Portfolio Assessment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Verantwortung; Bundesrecht; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; School district; Schulbezirk; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Öffentliche Erziehung; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; School districts; Autonomy; School autonomy; Schulautonomie; Rollen; Institutionelle Autonomie; Portfoliobeurteilung
Abstract	The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), gives states the opportunity to rethink their K-12 accountability systems. Gone are No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) tight rules for assessing and intervening in schools and districts. This could not come at a better time for urban schooling. Urban districts operate in a very different context than they did when accountability systems emerged about two decades ago when the district was the monopoly provider of public education in most cities. Today, the district is simply one of many operators. In some cities, like New Orleans, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., the district is operating, or could soon operate, fewer than half of the public schools. ESSA's flexibility and this new reality enables state leaders to explore how they might apply charter-style accountability to district-run schools. This report explores how states can create a new approach to accountability for urban school districts that builds on the lessons learned in the charter school movement over the past quarter century. Specifically, in cities with large, growing, and high-performing charter school sectors, this report explores how states could apply charter-style accountability to district-run schools. This is not a portfolio system as we know them today: each of the city's public schools (charter and district-run) would have a performance contract with an independent, non-district authorizer. This would allow state leaders to give district-run schools charter-like autonomy and create a single citywide accountability system. The city's new K-12 landscape would be defined by a wide array of co-equal school operators and a diversity of schools held accountable through a single rigorous and publicly transparent process. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. 1101 15th Street NW Suite 1010, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 202-289-2700; Fax: 202-289-4009; e-mail: contact@publiccharters.org; Web site: http://www.publiccharters.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01