This monthly newsletter provides timely updates on news from other compact sites and easy access to relevant resources.

Compact relevant news from September 2012.

The “Cleveland Plan” legislation, signed into law by Ohio’s governor on July 2, 2012, enhances the district’s power to take swift and stronger corrective action with a failing school, streamlines the removal of a teacher, dramatically reworks teacher assignment and tenure, and allows for performance to partly determine pay as well as which teachers are laid off during a “reduction in force.”

Session: Scaling Impact Through Collaboration with the “Enemy”
Date: June 20, 2012
Presenters: Al Fan, Charter School Partners; Eric Johnson, Illinois Network of Charter Schools; Eric Mahmoud, Seed Academy, Harvest Preparatory School, Best Academy and Sister Academy; Sara Paul, Minneapolis Public Schools; Oliver Sicat, Chicago Public Schools; Kate Ford, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

In case you missed CRPE’s June 5th webinar, “Residencies for Leaders and Teachers: Lessons from Connecticut and Minneapolis,” click here to watch the webinar or view the presentations.

This webinar highlighted efforts by a district and a charter leader to rethink talent development, Paige MacLean of Achievement First (AF) CMO in Connecticut and Sarah Paul from Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) each describe how their leaders-in-training programs provide teachers with an opportunity to shadow successful educators in their city’s highest-performing schools, district or charter.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has funded a multi-year initiative to support the design and implementation of district-charter collaboration compacts. Figuring out how to create effective cross-sector governance structures has been challenging in some cities.

In case you missed CRPE’s March 5th webinar, “How District and Charter Schools Coordinate Enrollment: Practical Experiences from New Orleans and Denver,” click here to watch the webinar or view the presentations.

Getting the right conditions and partnerships ready to build unified enrollment system that reaches across district and charter schools is crucial to its success. Neil Dorosin, founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation in Public School Choice and consultant to both Denver and New Orleans lays out several key concerns all districts hoping to build a unified enrollment system should attend.