Charter schools and accountability in public education / Paul T. Hill and Robin J. Lake with Mary Beth Celio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hill, Paul T. (Paul Thomas), 1943-

Contributor:

Lake, Robin J.

Celio, Mary Beth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Charter schools--United States--Evaluation.

Charter schools.

Educational accountability--United States.

Educational accountability.

Evaluation.

United States.

Education--Standards--United States.

Education.

Education--Standards.

Physical Description:

xi, 125 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2002]

Summary:

Charter schools are not fundamentally different from public magnet and specialty schools, yet their systems of accountability are unique -- and controversial. Unlike public schools, charter schools enter into performance agreements with local school boards or other state agencies. If their students do not learn, the schools can be denied further public funds. This book examines charter school accountability in theory and in fact. It represents an early effort to understand how new forms of accountability for public education actually work, in the process drawing lessons that are especially relevant to the standards-based reform movement. The authors examined 150 schools and 60 authorizing agencies in six states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Michigan. They conducted extensive case studies of internal accountability relationships in 17 of the 150 schools and supplemented the results of state and school case studies with data from a nationally representative survey of charter schools. The authors demonstrate the ways in which charter schools have developed internal accountability, as well as productive relationships among teachers, administrators, and parents. They show how schools balance those relationships with their obligations to authorizing agencies, as well as the demands of other organizations whose support can be crucial. Finally, they suggest how legislators, charter school operators, philanthropists, parents, and teachers can further develop charter accountability and extract lessons that can be generalized to public education.

Contents:

Charter schools and accountability

Charter laws and politics

Internal accountability

Authorizing agencies

Accountability to others

Recommendations

Learning from charter school accountability.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815702663

0815702671

OCLC:

49531328