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Category: Facilities Financing

Making Charter School Facilities More Affordable: State Driven Policy Approaches, Wested, US Department of Education, December 2008

Charter School Facilities Finance: How CDFIs Created the Market, and How to Stimulate Future Growth, Annie Donovan, Community Development Investment Center, June 2008

Paying for School: An Overview of Charter School Finance, Jonathan Kivell, Community Development Investment Center, June 2008

2007 Charter School Facility Finance Landscape, Local Initiatives Support Corporation, April 2007
This study offers a comprehensive listing of private nonprofit and public providers of funding and financing for charter school facilities and includes all 41 jurisdictions with a charter law.

California School Finance System: Funding Charter School Operations and Facilities, California School Finance
This website explains the ways in which charter schools in California can obtain funding for operations and facilities.

Financing the Future: Meeting the Needs of Charter Schools, IFF, 2007

Report to the Community: Overview of Charter School Facility Development and Financing, Low Income Investment Fund, June 2006

Non Profit Real Estate Trusts: Viable Solutions to the Charter Schools Facilities Challenge, New Schools Venture Fund, April 2006
This brief discusses how intermediaries, specifically non profit real estate trusts, can help with charter school facility financing.

Facilities Funds/Facilities Assistance, Education Commission of the States
This online resource briefly summarizes facilities funding and assistance by the 40 states that have enacted charter school laws, including describing the type of school district property that a charter school may occupy and the funding criteria charter schools must meet to obtain to build or renovate facilities.

Charter School Finance and Facilities Planning, Charter Schools Development Center, September 2005
This resource shows how to assemble a basic financial plan and offers public and private opportunities for finding and funding a charter school facility.

New Markets Tax Credits: Issues and Opportunities, Jefferson Armistead, Community Development Solutions, April 2005
This brief examines issues and opportunities related to New Market Tax Credits and highlights how charter schools have successfully utilized these credit to finance facilities.

Securing Charter School Facilities: Opportunity and Constraints, Miriam Jill Wells, University of Southern California

Summaries of State Charter School Facility Laws, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Credit Enhancement of Charter School Facilities
This website provides summaries of state charter school facility laws for California, District of Columbia, Minnesota and Utah, including links and regulations for each state.

Building a Foundation for Success: How Authorizers Can Help Schools With the Facilities Challenge, Robin Halsband; Bryan C. Hassel, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, May 2004
This brief highlights the important role that authorizers can play in ensuring charter schoools receive appropriate loans to finance facilities.

The Finance Gap: Charter Schools and Their Facilities, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), January 2004
This study focuses on fourteen states and the District of Columbia, jurisdictions which house 75 percent of the nation's charter schools and have a high need for public school facilities caused by student growth and/or facilities repair needs.

Facilities Financing: New Models for Districts that are Creating Schools New, Bryan Hassel and Katie Walter Essex, Public Impact, Education Evolving
This paper examines promising emerging solutions under three headings: tapping non-traditional sources of funds for school financing; finding ways to economize and rethink the use of brick-and-mortar buildings; and, establishing real estate trusts and intermediaries.

A Building Need, Kim Smith and James Wilcox, Hoover Institution, 2004

New York City Charter Schools: A Real Estate Primer, Civic Builders, 2004
This brief discusses solutions to facilities financing.

State Notes: Charter Schools Finance, Education Commission on the states, April 2003
This paper examines and compares charter school finance and funding policies across states, including per-pupil spending levels, start-up and planning grant availability, and facilities and transportation assistance from the state.

Building a Charter School Building: Creative Financing Options., Mary Lang, 2003

The Viability of Lease Purchases as a Means for Funding School Facilities, Beverly Bunch; Tina Smith, Journal of Education Finance, 2002

Charter School Facilities: Report from a National Survey of Charter Schools, Bryan Hassel and Barbara Page, Public Impact for Charter Friends National Network and Ksixteen

Charter Facilities: A Resource Guide on Development and Financing, National Cooperative Bank (NBC) Development Corporation and Charter Friends National Network, April 2000
This guide covers facility planning, needs assessment, site selection, construction and financing for charter schools.

Charter Schools: Limited Access to Facility Financing, Government Accountability Office (GAO)
This article addresses (1) the degree to which charter schools have access to traditional public school facility financing, (2) whether alternative sources of facility financing are available, and (3) potential options available to the federal government if it were to assume a larger role in charter school facility financing.

Solving the Charter School Financing Conundrum, Center for Education Reform
This paper illustrates four ways in which charter school finance can be improved while providing examples of each method in different states and school districts.

Paying for the Charter Schoolhouse: Policy Options for Charter School Facilities Financing, Bryan Hassel, Charter Friends National Network
This report outlines five options state policymakers can pursue to enable charter schools to gain access to suitable, high quality facilities.

New Hampshire Charter School Facility Handbook
This guide is intended to help you become more knowledgeable of space/facility planning--what needs to be done to succeed in this task and the rules and regulations that apply

The Office of Educational Facilities, Charter Schools, Florida Department of Education
This website provides technical support and information for issues related to educational facilities planning, funding, construction, and operation.

USCS Start-Up Brief: Facilities
This online resource offers an outline of steps to follow to secure charter school facilities and financing, including possible site options

Capital Financing for Private and Independent Schools, Wye River Group

Report to the Community; Charter School Financing: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons Learned, Thomas Miller; Julie Rosenthal Obbard, Low Income Investment Fund, Low Income Investment Fund
This report surveys six of the most active nonprofit and for-proft groups engaged in charter school facility financing across the country, highlighting challenges faced and lessons learned with respect to their charter school loan portfolios.

The Answer Key: How to Plan, Develop, and Finance Your Charter School Facilities, NCB Capital Impact