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
SchoolWorks is partnering with the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) to implement the Minnesota Authorizer Performance Evaluation System (MAPES); a comprehensive evaluation of their existing charter school authorizers. SchoolWorks was contracted by MDE in February 2015 to review four cohorts of authorizers between... read more