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Category: Authorizing

Massachusetts Charter School: Common School Performance Criteria, Massachusetts Department of Education, May 2008

Charter Schools in SREB States: A Call for Accountability, Southern Regional Education Board, 2008

NACSA Members Salary Survey 2008, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, 2008
This first annual authorizer salary survey, conducted by the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, finds that most public charter authorizing work is conducted by a small staff of between one to five employees that work solely on public chartering issues as well as a select number of staff that assume non-charter duties as well. The leadership position of an authorizing office is generally held by an experienced individual with advanced education who has an average annual salary of $92,500. The typical public charter school office budget is under $1 million. The most difficult human capital challenges facing authorizing organizations were identified as lack of qualified staff and fulfilling authorizing duties within the allocated budget.

Good to Govern: Evaluating the Capacity of Charter School Founding Boards, Marci Cornell-Feist, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, September 2007
This brief highlights the role that a board assumes in ensuring the success of charter schools.

Navigating Special Education in Charter Schools Part II: The Authorizers' Role In Ensuring Quality Special Education Programs, Lauren Morando Rhim, National Association of Charter School Authorizers, September 2007

Project Intersect's Survey of Charter School Authorizers, Lauren M. Rhim, Cheryl M. Lange, Eileen M. Ahearn, Margaret J. McLaughlin, February 2007

Principles & Standards for Quality School Authorizing
This guide is the professional standard for quality authorizing across America. It has been used to stimulate policy discussions in many state capitols and to inform authorizer practices nationwide, Revised 2007.

2007 Principles & Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing, NACSA, 2007

Charter Schools Indicators: A 2007 Report from the Center on Educational Governance, University of Southern California, 2007
This first annual report from CEG uses financial as well as academic data to assess charter school performance in California.

"Alternative" Charter School Authorizers: Playing a Vital Role in the Charter Movement, Louann Bierlein Palmer, Progressive Policy Institute (PPI), December 2006

Trends in Charter School Authorizing, Rebecca Gau, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, May 2006

Holding Charter Authorizers Accountable: Why it is Important and How it Might Be Done, Robin J. Lake, Center on Reinventing Public Education, February 2006
This paper examines the causes and consequences of poor authorizing and proposes how the problem might be fixed.

Strengthening Monitoring and Process When Schools Close Could Improve Accountability and Ease Student Transitions, US Government Accountability Office, November 2005

A State Policymaker's Guide to Alternative Authorizers of Charter Schools, Bryan Hassel, Todd Ziebarth, Lucy Steiner, Education Commission of the States, September 2005
This guide presents state policymakers with the advantages, disadvantages and policy considerations for each of the seven types of alternative authorizes and considerations for what kind of alternative authorizing structures may make sense for their states.

Building Excellence in Charter School Authorizing: Authorizer Self-Evaluation Instruments, National Association of Charter School Authorizers
A guide designed to help authorizers answer certain questions and improve charter school authorizing

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.

Charter School Authorizing: Are States Making the Grade?, Louann Bierlein Palmer and Rebecca Gau, Thomas B. Fordham Institute, June 2003

Charter Schools Accountability: A Guide to Issues and Options for Charter Authorizers, Annie E. Casey Foundation
This guide aims to inform charter school authorizers of the design issues they face in creating accountability systems for charter schools, and a review of some of the approaches charter-granting agencies around the country are using to address these issues.

Renewing the Compact: A Statement by the Task Force on Charter School Quality and Accountability, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools