Twelve studies find that overall gains in charter schools are larger than other public schools; four find charter schools’ gains higher in certain significant categories of schools; six find comparable gains; and, four find that charter schools’ overall gains lagged behind traditional schools.
Source: Charter School Achievement: What We Know, July 2005 Update
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http://www.crpe.org/cs/crpe/view/csr_pubs/236
With several hundred new public charter schools opening each year and approximately 20 percent of existing public charter schools experiencing leadership turnover in a given year, the public charter school movement needs a much larger pool of leaders. This document examines 13 public charter school leadership training programs and offers recommendations on building a stronger public charter school leadership pipeline. The authors find that the public charter school leadership training programs offer a distinct approach to school leadership preparation - less lecture and more real-world experiences and they successfully address critical issues such as topics such as human capital, financial management, and academic accountability. They also find, however, that many of the training programs fail to adequately address the topics of community engagement, fundraising, finance management and district negotiations. To help create a larger pool of high-performing public charter school leaders, the authors encourage expanding successful professional development programs, tapping into local university public administration, nonprofit, and business leadership training programs, and expanding online training options.
Date: 2008
Source: National Charter School Research Project
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