[PDF] Charter School Funding Considerations eBook

Author : Christine Rienstra Kiracofe
Publisher : IAP
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1648028357

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Much has been written about how public schools in the United States are funded. However, missing in the current literature landscape is a nuanced discussion of funding as it relates to public charter schools. This text, authored by researchers and professionals working in the charter school world, provides readers with a comprehensive overview of issues related to the funding and operation of charter schools. The book opens with an introduction to charter schools and how they are funded. The financial management and oversight of charter schools and issues related to funding equity, including how charter schools impact district school finances, are addressed. Special considerations for charter schools related to serving special education students and transportation issues are also addressed. After reading this book, readers will have a thorough understanding of how charter schools are funded and managed financially.

Author : Education Commission of the States
Publisher : Department of Education
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,96 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN :

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To provide policymakers, practitioners, and other education leaders with the knowledge needed to consider the issues surrounding charter schools, a survey of these schools is offered. The text opens with an overview of charter-school basics, including the types of schools that are permissible and the legal status of charter schools. It analyzes the students served by charters and provides data on the total number of charter schools and the students attending them. How to sponsor a charter school, including the appeals process, is described, along with finance and fundraising, the funding approach, per-pupil expenditure, startup costs, facilities, temporary financial assistance, noninstructional services, and transportation. Issues of autonomy are described, such as waivers and control of budget, and information on oversight, renewal, and revocation is discussed. Details are also provided on teachers and staff, including teacher certification, salaries, pensions and benefits, and collective bargaining. Three appendices provide legislative examples of charters, list charter-school resources, and give a state-by-state analysis of charter-school laws. (RJM)

Author : Robin Jacobowitz
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,37 MB
Release : 2004
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ISBN :

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The New York State Charter Schools Act, passed in 1998, identifies a bundle of resources available to charter schools from a variety of local, state, and federal sources. The Act intends for these resources to provide adequate funding and support for the operation of charter schools. Specific resources include a per pupil payment for general operating support, additional state funding for special education, federal dollars driven by student population (e.g. No Child Left Behind Title I funding), as well as in-kind services from the school district in which the charter school resides. This bundle of local, state, and federal resources roughly mirrors the funding and support provided to traditional public schools. Yet since the passage of the Act, and since New York State?s first five charter schools opened their doors in the fall of 1999, charter school advocates and operators have argued that this funding is insufficient. Specifically, they have maintained that the resources that charter schools receive are less than the resources available to other public schools in the same school district-- at times asserting that this discrepancy is as large as 30%. They also claim that lack of parity is a disincentive to future charter school operators. While charter school operators argue the lack of parity in resources, school districts argue that charter schools already receive sufficient funding. This paper explores whether or not funding disparities exist and the magnitude of any such disparities. It begins with a listing of the public resources available to charter schools in New York State, then proceeds with several comparative analyses for charter and traditional public schools in New York City. This paper also finds that New York City charter schools have fewer public resources than traditional public schools. This funding disparity exists at all educational levels--elementary, middle, and high school--and for students in both general and special education. By identhese discrepancies, this paper provides legislators and policy makers with evidence and information to correct this disparity and place charter schools on equal financial footing with all other public schools in New York State. Contains 7 figures, and 4 appendices. A list of other reports and papers on Charter Schools research done by the institute is also provided. [This report was also produced by the Office of New Schools Development New York City Department of Education.].

Author : Wagma Mommandi
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807779806

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Access issues are pivotal to almost all charter school tensions and debates. How well are these schools performing? Are they segregating and stratifying? Are they public and democratic? Are they fairly funded? Can apparent successes be scaled up? Answers to all these core questions hinge on how access to charter schools is shaped. This book describes the incentives and pressures on charter schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate those pressures, explaining access-restricting practices in relation to the ecosystem within which charter schools are created. It also explains how charters have sometimes responded by resisting the pressures and sometimes by surrendering to them. The text presents analyses of 13 different types of practices around access, each of which shapes the school’s enrollment. The authors conclude by offering recommendations for how states and authorizers can address access-related inequities that arise in the charter sector. School’s Choice provides timely information on critical academic and policy issues that will come into play as charter school policy continues to evolve. Book Features: Examines how charter schools control who gains and retains access.Explores policies and practices that undermine equitable admission and encourage opportunity hoarding.Offers a set of policy recommendations at the state and federal level to address access-related issues.

Author : Paul T. Hill
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780817947637

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The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to pay rent out of operating funds, and other ways. They explain how these policies can be amended to level the playing field and give charter schools—and the children they serve—a fairer chance to succeed.

Author : Tionis Fordham
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 2015
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As waves of educational reform spread across the United States, charter schools continue to emerge as an alternative to the traditional public school. This study examined funding, governance, and accountability provisions of nationwide charter school legislation to ascertain similarities, differences, litigated challenges and funding issues throughout the United States of America. These legislative and case law findings can inform legislators, policy makers and school districts as they review and develop current legislative policies.

Author : Amy Stuart Wells
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807777552

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In this provocative volume, Amy Stuart Wells and her co-authors provide evidence that the laissez-faire policies of charter school reform often exacerbate existing inequalities in our schools. Providing the most comprehensive, critical review of charter schools to date, this timely volume is based on the authors’ in-depth study of 10 urban, suburban, and rural school districts and 17 diverse charter schools in California, plus their analysis of other charter school studies from around the country. Focusing on two central issues—accountability and equity—they explore how charter school policies affect the lives of children, educators, and parents in diverse social, economic, and political contexts. The authors conclude that although the quality and experiences of charter schools is highly varied across different contexts, the laws that allow these schools to exist fail to assure meaningful accountability. Meanwhile, these policies increase inequality and stratification by pushing the educational system toward privatization in terms of finance and admissions while failing to target much-needed resources toward low-income communities. This dynamic book will help educators and policymakers develop a future policy agenda for charter school reform that will be more responsive to the needs of all children. “The authors, for the first time, make sense of the diverse and diffuse charter school ‘movement.’ They argue that the lack of support, the absence of equity provisions in state laws, and the burnout of many charter school personnel have led to the beginning of the end of this—yet another—school reform. This book provides important lessons for all who care about public education.” —Jean Anyon, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Author : Sandra Vergari
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 36,49 MB
Release : 2002-07-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 0822980835

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Charter schools are publicly funded entities that enjoy freedom from many of the regulations under which traditional public schools operate. There are, however, state and local variations in charter school legislation and implementation. The Charter School Landscape is the first book to analyze and compare charter school politics and policies across a broad range of jurisdictions.The first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1992. Within nine years, there were more than 2,000 charter schools operating in thirty-four states, Washington, D.C., and Alberta, Canada. Public discourse on the charter school reform is often passionate and politically motivated. Sandra Vergari has assembled a group of experts to present a more reflective and scholarly discussion of the reform, its performance to date, and its implications for public policy.Each chapter focuses on a single state or province, and systematically addresses such issues as charter school laws, the politics of policy implementation, charter school accountability, controversies and trends, and prospects for the future. In addition, the contributors emphasize significant issues specific to each state that offer lessons for analysts and policymakers everywhere. As a whole, The Charter School Landscape suggests that charter schools are having a significant impact on the institution of public education and how we think about the concept of the "real public school."

Author : Joseph Murphy
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807741986

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Shows how charter schools have changed in the years since their development, looks at their role in educational reform, and provides background information and details for the future of chartering.