Student Achievement in Charter Schools: What the Research Showse The charter sector has grown dramatically since its beginnings in Minnesota almost a quarter of a century ago. Today, an estimated 2.5 million children attend approximately 6,400 charter schools across the country, and all but 8 states have charter laws in place. The expansion of the [...]

Charter Schools and Military Communities: A Toolkit Charter Schools and Military Communities: A Toolkit features information on charter schools serving the needs of military families and tools to help additional military communities strengthen their local school options with new charter schools. Over the past decade, a variety of charter schools have opened to [...]

Finding Space: Charters in District Facilities. Accessing affordable facilities has long been identified as one of the most significant challenges facing charter schools. In response to this challenge, an array of policy and market-based approaches has emerged over the years. Examples of these approaches include: public and private credit enhancement, tax-exempt bond financing, [...]

Case Study: Personalized Learning at Cornville Regional Charter School This case study features Cornville Regional Charter School (CRCS) and its learner-centric personalized learning methodology. Founded in 2012, CRCS is a charter program located in rural Maine, and the school serves 144 students in grades K-8. CRCS has fully integrated proficiency-based personalized learning into [...]

Roscoe Collegiate ISD Early College/T-STEM Academy Lessons Learned Safal Partners produced a report to showcase the successes of an exemplary Early College High School (ECHS)/STEM Academy in rural Texas – Roscoe Collegiate ISD (RCISD). RCISD, with support from Educate Texas, transformed its traditional public high school into an ECHS that integrates the STEM Blueprint to [...]

An Analysis of the Charter School Facility Landscape in Delaware Jan 5, 2018 | Safal Partners In the spring of 2016, the National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC), the Colorado League of Charter Schools (the League), the Delaware Charter Schools Network (DCSN), and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (the Alliance) collaborated to [...]

Case Study: Charter Schools Intentionally Designed to Serve Diverse Students and Families This case study features Valor Collegiate Academies, an intentionally diverse charter management organization (CMO) that operates two high-performing charter schools in Nashville, Tennessee. Valor opened its first school in 2014-15 with a mission to serve a diverse student body and has made [...]

New School Development: A Toolkit for Charter Support Organizations and Charter School Founders Wednesday, April 11, 2018 | Safal Partners The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) released a new toolkit aimed at providing Charter Support Organizations (CSOs) and charter school founders with new resources on what it takes to open a new [...]