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California Charter School Closures: Perspectives and Advice from Nine Former Charter School Directors
Charter schools have been categorized as "everyone's reform" (Bracey, 2004); they are a type of public school, first established in 1992, that normally has fewer restrictions than most public schools and that serves a student body that, in many circumstances, has consciously opted to attend the …
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Understanding Charter School Governance: A Case Study of a Conversion Charter School Board of Directors
The charter school movement has been at the forefront of educational reform since the 1990s. The majority of charter school research has focused on academic achievement and issues of access, equity, and funding. Less attention has focused on charter school governance, yet evidence suggests that …
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UNINTENDED EFFECTS OF CHARTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS
… three essays, which study unintended effects of charter school programs. Chapter 1 evaluates the influence of charter schools on housing values. The dynamics between school quality and housing markets contribute to the isolation of disadvantaged students in low performing school districts. …
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An analysis of successful charter school operations
… and systems that contribute to successful charter schools. Nine open ended interviews were conducted, which were then read and coded to identify themes. Using a process consistent with the <em>constant comparison</em> method, codes were transferred into a separate document. To ensure novel …
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Leadership practices amongst traditional public and charter school principals
… practices between traditional and public charter school principals in Indiana. The first chapter provides the reader with information regarding societal views on the position and the potential for entrepreneurial school leaders. The chapter also describes the impact that school leaders …
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Charter school growth and educational equity in metropolitan areas
Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 102768 Lift date: 2019-08-10T21:27:21Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Including Conscientiously: How Charter School Educators Experience Inclusion Education Implementation
<p>This narrative inquiry examined how charter school educators experience inclusive education implementation while confronting ableist systems that maintain exclusion through seemingly neutral practices. This research emerged from my lived experience of how educational structures systematically …
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Charter School Accountability: Patterns of Practice Among Multiple Sponsoring Agencies
Since 1991, charter schools have become a popular school choice option. Charter schools are independent public schools free from most state regulations in exchange for a written contract specifying that certain results will be obtained. Charter school accountability depends on both the specific …
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Student Perceptions of the Charter School Experience at Metropolitan Detention Center
Student perceptions of a charter school experience at Metro Detention Center in Bernalillo County, New Mexico were examined via in-depth interviews of two groups of students. One group consisted of 12 new students who had not attended classes yet. This group was re-interviewed at 3 weeks to …
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Integrating 6th Grade Geometry Standards into a Waldorf Methods Charter School
<p>Many Waldorf methods charter schools are opening up in California today. They are publicly funded schools bringing Waldorf methods into public education. In today’s political climate all public schools must pass the state’s bar of academic success measured by their Adequate Yearly Progress …
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Conversion Charter School Leaders' Perceptions of School Change: A Narrative Inquiry
… of change efforts in American urban public school districts to improve educational opportunities for students have had a lackluster impact on student achievement. For students living in areas of concentrated poverty, achievement gaps and drop out rates remain unacceptably high. These gaps …
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Academic identity, parental socialization, and teacher support of charter school Latinx adolescents
… teacher academic support they receive at a local charter school. The study will use correlation, as well as a regression analysis to examine the variance explained in academic identity when regressed on PAS and teacher academic support.
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Performing the new public school: embodied narratives in a Chicago charter school
… locates the emergence of the new public school in Chicago, the charter school, within a cultural imperative for global competence by local government, private-public interventions to stage school reform, and marginalized communities’ participations to achieve educational equality. These …
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An Historical Analysis of the Development of Charter School Legislation in Virginia
Understanding the evolution of charter school legislation and the expectations of legislators adopting this legislation is important to school boards and school administrators in Virginia. The purpose of this research project was to delineate the historical development of charter school legislation …
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What Do Parents Want? Factors Affecting Parental Decisions in Charter School Enrollment
… restructuring within public education, school choice has gained in popularity over the last twenty years. The charter school movement, in particular, has enjoyed a high growth rate since its introduction in 1992. Advocates of charter schools claim the schools' regulatory freedom and …
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Un camino de conocimiento: a marimacha's meditation on an LGBTQ inclusive charter school
… examines Java High, an LGBTQ inclusive charter school, using ethnographic methods to inquire if this school creates an institutional architecture that cultivates more positive academic and non-academic outcomes for LGBTQ youth. Java High is located on the north west side of the Midwest …
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