OAPCS President and CEO RaShaun Holliman is holding a series of regional meetings in October across Ohio to meet with the charter school community.
2016
- A New Model for Supporting High-Quality Public Charter Schools, NAPCS
- Charter Public Schools Serving Hispanic Communities, NAPCS
- The Every Student Succeeds Act: What You Need to Know, NAPCS
- Evaluation of Ohio’s EdChoice Scholarship Program: Selection, Competition, and Performance Efforts, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- A Call to Action to Improve the Quality of Full-Time Virtual Public Charter Schools, NAPCS
- Transitioning to the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): Frequently Asked Questions, U.S. Dept. of Education
- Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning, iNACOL
- How the Press Covers Charter Schools, American Enterprise Institute
- Backfilling in Charter Public Schools, NAPCS
- Demanding a Chance: Parents’ Demand for Charter Public Schools Continues to Grow, NAPCS
- Career and Technical Education in High School: Does It Improve Student Outcomes?, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Charter High Schools’ Effects on Long-Term Attainment and Earnings
- How to Recruit High-Performing Charter Management Organizations to a New Region: Results from the 2015 CMO Survey; NAPCS, Foundation for Excellence in Education, and Ampersand Education
- Education Equality in America: Comparing the Achievement Gap Across Schools, Cities, and States, Education Equality Index
- Authorizer Shopping: Lessons from Experience and Ideas for the Future, NACSA
- The Health of the Charter Public School Movement: A State-by-State Analysis, NAPCS
- State of Charter Authorizing 2015 Report, NACSA
- OAPCS Statewide Data Analysis for the 2014-2015 Ohio State Report Card
- Guide to 2015 Ohio School Report Cards, ODE
- Ohio Education Acronym Guide, Buckeye Charter School Boards
- A Closer Look at the Charter School Movement, NAPCS
- Community School Classroom Facilities Grant Project Approval Guidelines
- Quality in Adversity: Lessons from Ohio’s best charter schools, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Measuring Up to the Model: A Ranking of State Charter School Laws, NAPCS
- Resources on Every Students Succeed Acts (ESSA), ODE
2015
- Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and Charter School Authorizing, NACSA
- Summary of Charter Schools Program Provisions in Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), NAPCS
- America’s Best (And Worst) Cities for School Choice, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- On the Road to Better Accessibility, Autonomy, & Accountability: State Policy Analysis, NACSA
- A Growing Movement: America’s Largest Charter School Communities, NAPCS
- Is Detente Possible? District-charter school relations in four cities, Thomas B. Fordham Institute and Public Impact
- Getting Lost While Trying to Follow the Money: Special Education Finance in Charter Schools, NAPCS
- Online Charter School Study 2015, Center for Research on Education Outcomes
- The Policy Framework for Online Charter Schools, Center for Reinventing Public Education
- Inside Online Charter Schools, Mathematica Policy Research
- InFOCUS – Online Charter Schools’ Operational and Instructional Practices: Highlights of Findings, Mathematica Policy Research
- 2015 State Legislative Session Highlights for Public Charter Schools, NAPCS
- Automatic Closure of Low-Performing Public Charter Schools, NAPCS
- State of Opportunity: The Status and Direction of Blended Learning in Ohio, Christensen Institute, The Learning Accelerator and Ohio Blended Learning Network
- A Tale of Two Systems: Education Reform in Washington D.C., Progressive Policy Institute
- Separation of Church and School: Guidance for Public Charter Schools Using Religious Facilities, NAPCS
- Chartering Turnaround: Leveraging Public Charter School Autonomy to Address Failure, NAPCS
- State Laws on Weighted Lotteries and Enrollment Practices, NAPCS
- Pre-K and Charter Schools: Where State Policies Create Barriers to Collaboration, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Redefining the School District in America, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Holding Public Charter School Authorizers Accountable: State Experiences and Policy Recommendations, NAPCS
- 2015 Schooling in America Survey: Perspectives on School Choice, Common Core, and Standardized Testing, The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice
- Buckets of Water into the Ocean: Non-Public Revenue in Public Charter and Traditional Public Schools, University of Arkansas
- Waiting for Their Chance: A Closer Look at Wait Lists in Urban Public Charter Schools, NAPCS
- State Policy Snapshot: School District Facilities and Public Charter Schools, NAPCS
- School Closures and Student Achievement, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- CREDO’s Urban Charter School Study on 41 Regions
2014
- 2014 CREDO report, Charter School Performance in Ohio
- The Road to Redemption: Ten Policy Recommendations for Ohio’s Charter School Sector, Bellwether and Fordham Institute
- On the Road to Better Accountability: An Analysis of State Charter School Policies, NACSA report
- Separating Fact & Fiction: What You Need to Know About Public Charter Schools, NAPCS
- The Productivity of Public Charter Schools, University of Arkansas and The Department of Education Reform
- 2014 Health of the Public Charter School Movement : A State by State Analysis
- Fordham’s Poised for Progress: Analysis of Ohio’s School Report Cards 2013-2014
2013
- Analyses of School Performance Results (Ohio Urban Charter Schools and District School Comparisons)
2012
Other Studies of Interest
- Evaluation of Evidence-based Practices in Online Learning
- Ohio Department of Education’s Public-Private Collaborative Commission Report
- The True Cost of School Study
Recommended Reading
- The Split Screen Strategy by Ted Kolderie
- Ohio ESEA Waiver Full Application
- K-8 Charter Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap, US Dept of Education Innovations in Education
- Charter High Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap, US Dept of Education Innovations in Education
- Successful Charter Schools, US Dept of Education Innovations in Education
- Steadying the Three-Legged Stool, NACSA
- Challenges of Starting and Operating Charter Schools
- Charter Schooling in the Buckeye State: A Tough Nut to Crack in Ohio, Progressive Policy Institute
- Why Do Parents Choose Charter Schools? KidsOhio
- Working Without A Safety Net – How Charter Leaders Can Best Survive on the High Wire, National Charter School Research Project
Find at your local bookstore or order online:
- Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada’s Quest to Change Harlem and America
- A Place Called School, John Goodlad
- Sweating the Small Stuff: Inner-City Schools and the New Paternalism, David Whitman, Chester Finn
- Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
- Work Hard. Be Nice.: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most Promising Schools in America, Jay Matthews
- Inside Urban Charter Schools: Promising Practices and Strategies in Five High-Performing Schools, Katherine Merseth
- The Seven Outs: Strategic Planning Made Easy for Charter Schools, Brian Carpenter, PhD
- Our School: The Inspiring Story of Two Teachers, One Big Idea, and the School That Beat the Odds, Joanne Jacobs