Balancing Accountability, Support, and Autonomy with Charter School Distance Learning Plans A Conversation Among Authorizers Unanticipated and prolonged school closures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic left charter school authorizers in uncharted territory. To provide a forum for educators to discuss the... read more
Charter School Oversight Through the Pandemic A Conversation Among Authorizers School closures resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically impacted the oversight capabilities of charter school authorizers. To provide a forum for authorizers to share ideas about mitigating this challenge, SchoolWorks... read more
SchoolWorks and the Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools Support Quality Authorizing in Wisconsin For the past year, SchoolWorks has been honored to serve as a partner to the Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools (WRCCS) to develop and provide professional development resources for charter school... read more
The Three Worst Mistakes Charter School Authorizers Make SchoolWorks Contributors: Kim Wechtenhiser and David Hartman Let’s face it. Authorizing charter schools is demanding, complicated, compliance-ridden, highly sensitive (and often politically-charged) work. And because many authorizers operate with a skeleton... read more
In an effort to improve charter school quality through better accountability, Ohio state law requires The Ohio Department of Education (ODE) to evaluate community school sponsors each year. Beginning in January 2015 and annually thereafter, sponsors (interchangeably referred to as authorizers) will be evaluated on three... read more