Abstract: As education experts and policymakers discuss strategies for revamping the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools President has offered a brief that seeks to ensure that charter schools are a part of that discussion. The organization recommends that as part of the reauthorization of NCLB, the federal Charter Schools Program should be redesigned around the twin goals of growth and quality to leverage the power of chartering as a more effective vehicle for meeting the goals of the law. It also recommends that Congress raise the funding levels for the federal charter grant programs and target those resources to the communities that need them most. Recommendations also include allowing local officials who choose to restructure by opening new, high-quality public charter schools to do so in spite of any state-mandated restrictions on charter school growth.
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