Updates

Robin Lake describes significant flaws in a paper assessing the impact of charter schools on school districts.

Big cities looking for school superintendents should pay attention to the progress in Chicago, writes Paul Hill.

The nominating panel charged with selecting candidates for Philadelphia’s new nine-member school board has received its last application.

Christine Campbell and Daniel Weisberg give three steps that charter operators, authorizers, and city-based organizations can take to ensure that charter schools have effective teachers in all classrooms.

As the Gates Foundation shifts its focus to new Networks for School Improvement, Sean Gill offers some lessons from a prior initiative.

Increasingly complex school choice systems are spurring local organizations to offer hands-on support for low-income families.

Citing evidence from CRPE’s new analysis, Robin Lake writes that the debate over school choice is out of touch with the experiences of families on the ground.

Charter School Principal Sharif El-Mekki says education leaders must work together to ensure every child has access to high-quality education

While sector conflicts garner the most attention nationally, writes Alex Medler, lots of constructive work is taking place locally.

Carrie Stewart of Afton Partners unpacks the fiscal complications of district enrollment decline.

School finance expert Karen Hawley Miles writes that some urban schools are finding new ways to organize resources to reach high standards.

Chester E. Finn, Jr., weighs in on whether districts and charters will be able to work together on the financial challenges of declining enrollment.

Robin Lake opines on Mike Petrilli’s argument for just “letting school districts be school districts.”