Charter Management Organizations: Innovations, Opportunities, and Challenges. Research Brief

Institution	Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; University of Washington, Center on Reinventing Public Education
Titel	Charter Management Organizations: Innovations, Opportunities, and Challenges. Research Brief
Quelle	(2010), (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; School Districts; Performance Factors; Institutional Characteristics; Organizational Effectiveness; Administrative Organization; Governance; Innovation; Barriers; Interviews; Administrator Attitudes; Content Analysis; Change Strategies; School Restructuring; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; School district; Schulbezirk; Leistungsindikator; Unternehmenserfolg; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Inhaltsanalyse; Lösungsstrategie; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; USA
Abstract	Over the past two decades, charter management organizations (CMOs) have become a significant force in the public K-12 charter school landscape. CMOs, nonprofit entities that directly manage public charter schools, are meant to meld the benefits of school districts--including economies of scale, collaboration among similar schools, and support structures--with the autonomies and entrepreneurial drive of the charter sector. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the major philanthropies funding charter schools invested heavily in CMOs and similar organizations, spending an estimated total of $500 million between 1999 and 2009. Their investments have been targeted to specific urban school districts that have been considered difficult, if not impossible, to reform. In recent years, the strong reputations of CMOs in many of these districts (e.g., New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles) have led policy leaders, including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, to call for greater replication of high-performing charter schools via CMOs, especially as a strategy for turning around or replacing chronically low-performing public schools. Despite the amount of investment and policy attention, there has been limited research to assess the impact of CMOs and their potential for improving public schools at scale. The National Study of Charter Management Organization Effectiveness was designed to better understand which practices and contextual factors are associated with CMO impacts. This brief presents findings from the study's interim report; the final report (which includes student achievement analysis) will be issued in the summer of 2011. (Contains 1 footnote.) (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Center on Reinventing Public Education. University of Washington Bothell Box 358200, Seattle, WA 98195. Tel: 206-685-2214; Fax: 206-221-7402; e-mail: crpe@u.washington.edu; Web site: http://www.crpe.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10