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The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools is a non-profit trade association serving the charter school industry. NAPCS advocates for all charter schools including those that contract with charter management organizations and education management organizations. Their mission is to ensure all children have access to a high-quality public ...
A report by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, released in July 2005 and updated in October 2006, [60] looked at twenty-six studies that make some attempt to look at change over time in charter school student or school performance. Twelve of these find that overall gains in charter schools were larger than other public schools ...
The California-based Scholarship Prep has applied to open a charter elementary and middle school in Des Moines for the 2025-26 school year. The group plans to use the 2024-25 school year for ...
Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) is a for-profit education management organization in the United States. It operates eighty-seven schools in seven states including sixty one charter schools in Florida. [1] In 2019, Charter Schools USA managed charter schools enrolling approximately 70,000 students on a vendor operated school basis. [2]: 87
The Chester Fund submitted a charter school application to form the Chester Charter School for the Arts. [5] CCSA was founded in 2012 with 325 students in Kindergarten through 6th grade. For five years, the school operated out of a rented industrial building in nearby Aston Township but outgrew the space in 2016. [6]
The state or its delegate issues a charter to a school. In most states, the charter-holder has the privileges and responsibilities of a school board, but not the taxing authority. Many states have adopted laws that require that the holder of the school charter be a non-profit organization. As a result, the most common form of a charter ...
These exemptions grant charter schools some autonomy and flexibility with decision-making, such as teacher contracts, hiring, and curriculum. In return, charter schools are subject to stricter accountability on spending and academic performance. Most states and the national capital of Washington, D.C. have charter school laws, though they vary ...
The numbers equate to 7.4% of total public school students. 291 new charter schools opened their doors in the 2021–22 school year, however the charter sector lost 15,047 students that year. 2020-21 marked one of the largest single-year increase ever recorded in terms of the number of additional students attending charter schools, but 2021-22 ...