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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 ...
Charter schools in the United States offer primary or secondary education without charge to pupils who take state-mandated exams. [3] These charter schools are subject to fewer rules, regulations, and statutes than traditional state schools, and receive public funding, typically a fixed amount per pupil.
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 ...
Today's charter schools are centered within urban areas, and generally accept a higher proportion of low-achieving, low-income students. In general, they are small – with about 60% enrolling fewer than 200 students (in comparison, only about 16% of traditional public school enroll fewer than 200 students), and have a slightly lower proportion of students with disabilities and who are limited ...
The schools were given over on a performance contract, which granted Charter Schools USA four years to improve; this contract was renewed in 2015. [5] Upon the arrival of the second renewal date for CSUSA's contract in June 2022, Indianapolis Public Schools opposed the renewal of operator's contract.
A charter management organization (CMO) is an educational organization that operates charter schools in the United States. Charter schools are public schools that operate independently of the local government school district. A CMO contracts with a charter school to provide a specific service or set of services. They may not hold the charter ...
National School Choice Week was founded in 2011 to promote the concept of all forms of school choice: district schools, district magnet schools, charter schools, private schools, and home schooling. The event, which takes place the last week of January each year, is sponsored by the National School Choice Awareness Foundation.
In June 2017, Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools awarded Success Academy with the 2017 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, an award recognizing the best academic outcomes in the nation for low-income students and students of color. [47]