A few suggestions:
1) Exempt charters from the "highly qualified" administrivia.
2) Block grant federal aid funds on the basis of student demographics and cut all red tape and compliance headaches. We've done this with our state equivalent of Title I funding and we recommend it highly.
3) Revise the current apparent requirements in NCLB regarding a single set of state standards and high-stakes tests. Instead authorize charter schools be to establish standards that are a different from the state's "mainline" ones and identify their own, well balanced and comprehensive "high stakes" assessment systems . . . and do this with minimal paperwork because the doing the real work is challenge enough.
Posted as a reply to:
Impact of Federal Policy on the Charter School Movement by Bob Montgomery 
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