Focus on Washington State

CRPE provides timely and useful research on schools and education policy in Washington State, including:

Analyses of Seattle Public Schools’ performance levels

Results of the first-year implementation of federal School Improvement Grants

The impact of seniority-based teachers layoffs on school improvement efforts

The lack of educational opportunity for low-income and minority students

Lessons from other states about creating high-quality charter schools

Related Research:

Washington Education Innovation Forum,

Innovation

These two briefs provide a summary of the special education landscape in New Orleans and Washington, D.C., and offer recommendations for further steps that might be taken to strengthen the cities’ support structures for parents of children with disabilities.

The report examines the Texas Education Agency’s System of Great Schools (SGS) initiative, which calls on districts to manage school performance in new ways, expands access to school choice options, and takes a dynamic approach to managing their supply of schools.