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Category: #AuthorizingMatters
- West Virginia: When Charter School Quality Wins for Students
- Why We Need High-Quality Charter Schools Now More Than Ever
- Myth-Busting the Democratic National Party Platform: The Role of Charter School Authorizing
- Minutes Matter: Reducing Reporting Burdens with Performance-Based Waivers
- Authorizers Must Ensure the Charter Sector Lives Up to Its Many Promises
- How One Chicago Authorizer Created Common Ground
- How to say “Yes” in Mandarin, French, or Spanish
- South Carolina’s Replication Application
- How Authorizers and a CSO Collaborate to Ensure the Best Possible Schools
- How Postmortems Encourage Continual Learning at CMU
- Miami-Dade’s Community-Centered Closure
- SUNY’s Community-Centered Closure: The Truest Sense of Partnership, Even in Closure
- It Takes Two: How One Authorizer and One School Meet the Needs of Special Needs Kids
- Leadership: Grow What Works
Category: 2015 State Policy Analysis
Category: 2018 Leadership Conference
- Protecting Charter School Autonomy: 2018 NACSA Leadership Conference Keynote
- Civil Rights Luminaries and Renowned Artist to Speak at the 2018 NACSA Leadership Conference
- Solomon Challenges NACSA to “Expect More” for NACSA’s 2018 Leadership Conference
Category: Access & Equity
- Words of Wisdom: Our Live Event with the National Charter Collaborative
- Message to the Charter School Authorizing Community from Karega Rausch, Interim President & CEO
- Getting Everyone on the Bus: Transportation is a Key Charter School Equity Issue
- Breaking Down Barriers to Equitable Access
Category: Authorizing Matters
- Authorizers Have an Important Role in Supporting Students with Disabilities
Category: Authorizing Practices
- New Resource: Charter School Financial Oversight for COVID-19 and Beyond
- Guidance for Charter School Authorizers to Ensure Accountability in a Time of Transition
- Guidance and Tools to Ensure Continuity of Learning in a Time of Transition for Charter School Authorizers
- The Paycheck Protection Program: What is an Authorizer’s Role?
- Tips for Virtual Capacity Interviews
- In Their Own Words: How Authorizers Define Leadership, Commitment, Judgment
Category: Autonomy Project
- Call for Authorizer Insight: How Are You Upholding School Autonomy?
Category: Charter School Pipeline
Category: Commentary
- NACSA’s Response to Biden-Administration’s Implementation of Statewide Testing
- New Bellwether Toolkit Helps Authorizers and Schools Reground, Prioritize, Plan, and Connect in Response to COVID-19
- How Authorizers Can Foster Charter Schools that are Holistic, Inclusive, and Awesome
- It’s All About the Outcomes: The Next 25 Years of Charter School Authorizing
- Diversity + Inclusion ≠ Equity
- 500 New Charter Schools, 270K More Charter Students
- Charter School Enrollment on the Rise
Category: Conference
- How to Have Fun at #NACSAcon 2019
Category: COVID-19
- Updated October 28 | Federal Education Policy Response to COVID-19
- To Support COVID Generation, Our Definition of Charter School Quality Must Evolve
- NACSA’s Policy Position on Charter School Testing and Accountability
- The Charter School Accountability Wars Are About to Begin
- Charter School Authorizer Conversations: Shenita Johnson Reflects on Leadership, (In)Equity, and Change
- NACSA’s Food Services Resource Calls for Ensuring Charter Access and Equity
- School Reopenings: One Authorizer Focuses on Student Safety in Reopening Plans
- Moving Beyond “Accountability” in Monitoring a Virtual Learning Environment
- NACSA Statement on School Reopenings
- Authorizer Conversations: Dr. Kelli Peterson Addresses Racism and Injustice in Education in America
- Authorizer Conversations: Peng Chao on Balancing “Meaningful Support” and Autonomy
- Charter School Authorizers Must Rebalance Accountability, Flexibility, and Support During the Pandemic
- Authorizer Conversations: Joseph Escobedo on Virtual Site Visits and the Human Side of Authorizing
- Supporting ELs, Students with Special Needs, and Student Mental Health During Distance Learning: Lessons from Minnesota
- Educating Students with Disabilities During COVID-19: Civil Rights Endure and Authorizers Must Lead
- Authorizer Conversations: David Frank on the Sprints, Strolls, and Marathon of Authorizing Through a Pandemic
- A Blueprint for Back to School: Additional Thoughts for Authorizers
- An Authorizer’s Role in Supporting Remote Learning
- Upholding Open Meetings Law in a Virtual World
- Authorizer Conversations: Erin Anderson on Support and Accountability in a Pandemic
- Updated April 20: State Education Policy Responses to COVID-19
- Have You Asked What Your Charter Schools Need?
- Helping Charter Schools Access Federal Resources for COVID-19
- Responding to Crisis Demands Balance: Three States Offer Models for Planning with Flexibility
- How One Charter School Authorizer is Responding to COVID-19
- New Resource: Maintaining Lottery Integrity in Times of Crisis
- When Moving Too Quickly Fails: On Supporting Communities During Disasters
- What Charter School Authorizers Can Do Right Now to Address COVID-19
Category: Federal Policy
- NACSA Fall 2018 Federal Update
Category: Federal Policy Update
- How Has COVID-19 Changed Education and Charter School Policy Priorities?
- Federal Activities to Support High Quality, Accountable Charter Schools: Ideas for the Biden Administration
- A Stimulus Package and a New Secretary of Education, Oh My!
- Latest Federal Budget Proposal Is a Big Loss—Not Only for Charter Schools, But All Public Schools
- Federal Support Has Helped Grow the Charter School Sector; Can it Help Improve It?
Category: Inside Charter School Growth
- Charter School Growth: Down But Not Out
Category: NACSA Updates
- Walking a Tightrope: Will New Mexico Bill Improve Charter School Board Oversight or Infringe on Autonomy?
- #NACSAcon Virtual: Opening Remarks by NACSA CEO Karega Rausch, PhD
- NACSA Welcomes M. Karega Rausch as New President & CEO
- NACSA Launches Search for New Leader Following Resignation of CEO
Category: One Million Lives
- One Authorizer in Georgia: On Being Intentional, Not Frightened
- One Authorizer in Arizona: Ask Yourself These Questions
- One Authorizer in Ohio: Doing the Right Thing
- One Authorizer in Missouri: Making Public Schools the Public’s Schools
- One Authorizer in Wisconsin: Jarett For Justice
- One Authorizer in California, Part 2: Getting Out of the Bunker
- One Authorizer in California, Part 1: ‘Charter Wars’ and Chocolate
- Future Authorizers in Alabama: Finding Common Ground
- One Authorizer in Hawaii: Truth-telling to Build a Great Charter Sector
- One Authorizer in Illinois: Choosing to Work for Choice
- One Authorizer in Georgia: Focusing on My Client, the Student
- What You Know is What You Do: Colorado’s Charter School Institute
- Good to Great in the Sunshine State
- Mississippi Children are Counting on us to Get it Right from the Beginning
- A Call for Quality Schools
- Changing One Million Lives
Category: Research
Category: Special Education
- How to Implement the NCD’s Special Education Report Recommendations
- Ask the Experts: Focus on Special Education Oversight
Category: State Policy Update
- NCSRC’s New High-Quality Authorizing State Profiles a Great Asset for the Field
- Mountaineers Are Always Free…To Pass Terrible Charter School Legislation
- A Reality Check for Evaluating the Fiscal Impact of Charter Schools
- Virtual Charter School Enrollment Is Up, But Quality Remains Disappointing in Pennsylvania
- Missouri’s Charter School Authorizer Oversight: Not Pretty, But It’s Working
- At Last? Will Florida Finally Get More Charter School Authorizing Options?
- What We’re Watching: Trends from NACSA’s 2020 Charter School Advocacy Survey
- Is 2020 the Year States Finally Tackle Charter School Access Issues?
- Year in Review: 2019 in Authorizing Policy
- Authorizing for Impact: What We Learned at the 2019 NACSA Leadership Conference
- 2019 Legislative Trends Impacting Authorizing: Diverging Opinions on Statewide Authorizing (Part 2)
- 2019 Legislative Trends Impacting Authorizing: More Expectations and Protecting Autonomy (Part 1)
- North Carolina’s Nosedive: The Disgraceful State of Its Charter School Law
- Nevada is Betting on, not Blaming, its Charter School Sector
- The Good, Bad, and Ugly on Pennsylvania’s Legislative Docket
- If It Works, We Want More: Expanding High-Performing Charter Schools
- Tennessee Paves a New Avenue for More Great Public Schools
- It’s Not Just a California Dream: Fix Bad Charter School State Policies to Erase Bad Incentives
- Heat Wave or Cold Snap: Movement on the Virtual Schools Policy Front?
- Preserving Authorizer Judgment: On the Road to a Win in New Mexico
- It’s All About the Balance: California’s Transparency Bill
- The Freshman Class Has a Lesson or Two For the Seniors
- One Thing That’s Hot This Winter: Virtual Charter School Reform
- Forget Netflix: What to Watch in the 2019 State Legislative Cycle
Category: Story Suite
- Category: Authorizer Voices
  - Authorizer Voices: Access is More than Choice
Category: Uncategorized
- Authorizers Are Key to Equity Efforts: Takeaways from The Century Foundation’s Report on State Policies Targeting Equity and Access
- 2017 NACSA Leadership Conference: Message from Our CEO
- On Being a Stakeholder and Informing Federal Policy
- Keeping Up with the Department of Education: Regulations on the Chopping Block, ESSA State Plans, and Impacts for Authorizers
- How to Open Doors
- Book Recommendations from NACSA’s National Advisory Board Members
- How Steps to Overturn ESSA Rules Will Impact Authorizers’ Work
- To the NAACP: Rescind the Moratorium and Work With Us to Improve Charter School Oversight
- NACSA Testifies at NAACP Charter School Hearing
- Your Q1 ESSA Checklist
- ESSA Transition: Kicking off 2017 with New Resources
- Deciphering State ESSA Plans
- Three Takeaways for Authorizers: Education Secretary-Nominee DeVos Hearing
- ESSA Final Regulation Issued: What Authorizers Need to Know
- Three Post-Election Observations for Authorizers
- 2016 NACSA Leadership Conference: Message from Our CEO
- Considering Discipline as a Student Outcome Could Change the Debate
- Why It’s Not Just A “Disruptive Kid” Issue
- Shaping Our View on School Quality and Improvement: Comments on Title I Accountability Regulations
- Things You Too Can Uncover with Due Diligence
- An Honest Approach to School Discipline
- Convincing Your Boss that NACSA’s Leadership Conference is Right for You
- “The status quo is not inevitable.”
- Forum: The Promise and Pitfalls of Virtual Charter Schools
- For Charter Schools, Look Back to Look Ahead
- Taking a Stand in Atlanta
- On the Frontlines of the Movement
- Public Education’s Long March to Equality: The Fight is Still Upon Us
- “They Just Want to Play and Talk to Their Friends”
- Ask the Right Questions About Charter School Graduation Rates
- Ask the Right Questions About Charter School Graduation Rates
- A Quarter-Life Crisis for Public Charter Schools?
- One Set of Data/Four Unique Perspectives on Authorizing and Special Education
- New Delhi: Reflections From an International Student’s Past and Present
- Live from DC: Negotiated Rule Making and Rube Goldberg Machines
- Getting It Right the First Time: Quality Practices Fuel Rigor
- Why is New Delhi turning to the U.S. Charter Model?
- The Civil Rights Project’s School Discipline Report and Authorizing
- From the City of Brotherly Love: A Way Beyond Our Public Education Weaknesses
- Authorizing Matters in New Health of Charter Movement Report
- What You Need to Know, Now: 3/4/16
- This #SuperTuesday, Demand Quality Charters Be Part of the Discussion
- Charter Schools in Alabama: A Deliberate Foundation for Quality
- Are More Authorizers Needed in Louisiana?
- #OpenTheDoors (or, How I Learned to Love the Federal Charter School Program)
- 100+ Point Car Inspection
- Advocacy isn’t a four letter word!
- Letting the Sunshine in on Charter Grants
- Grappling with Closure Costs
- Quality Choices for All
- Improving Access and Equity in the Charter Movement
- ESSA Transition: What Authorizers Need to Know About the Impact on State Accountability Systems
- ESSA Transition: The Why and What of the 12-18-15 Dear Colleague Letter for Authorizers
- What that “Charter School Bubble” Article gets wrong about Authorizing
- Ask Yourself if You Believe It
- Leaders Program: Alumni Experiences
- What Does the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Mean for Authorizers?
- Quality Authorizing Requires Quality Leadership: NACSA Can Help You Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be
- Working Together to Advance District Authorizing
- Responding to Hillary Clinton’s Remarks on Charters
- 2016 Presidential Election: Charter School Coverage
- Heads of Authorizing Offices Build Community
- Authorizers and Policymakers Should Take Action On Virtual Schools
- You’re Back from Conference… Now What?
- New & Good: 4 Things I’m Enjoying About This Year’s Conference
- Everything I Know about Authorizing, I Learned…
- NACSA Cheers Passage of Comprehensive Charter School Reform Bill in Ohio
- Insights from the First Charter State
- U.S. Department of Education Announces State Education Agency (SEA) Grant Recipients of the Charter School Program (CSP)
- Expecting More from Authorizers: A Great Read from Fordham
- Announcing Our Featured Conference Speaker: Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston
- Hint: One of the Answers is “Authorizing”
- The Toughest Part of Being an Authorizer
- Why I Believe in Washington State’s Charter Schools
- Sharing Ideas, Shaping Futures: The NACSA Leadership Conference
- Needs Based Authorizing: Designing a Process to Fill the Gaps (Part 2 of 2)
- Public Oversight Far from Lacking in Washington
- Money fuels charter-school dispute
- I’m Engaged! Connecting the Authorizer Community
- Washington’s Court Decision Threatens to Disrupt 1,200 Students and Families
- Needs Based Authorizing: Designing a Process to Fill the Gaps (Part 1 of 2)
- Mississippi Adds Two More Quality School Options
- NACSA Membership — Evolving to Back-up Great Authorizing
- Testing and Leadership and Prison, Oh My!
- ESEA: Nineteen Words with a Big Punch
- NACSA VP Karega Rausch Appointed to Indiana Charter School Board
- No Child Left Behind’s test and improve model is working
- Bipartisan Charter Provisions Included in ESEA Reauthorization Bills to be Commended
- Altering Authorizing
- Wonk-Attack (Volume 1): First Step Transparency, Second Step Accountability (Is My Charter School Good or Bad?)
- NACSAns in New Orleans: We Want to Connect With You
- Ohio Charter Sponsor Rankings Continue to Tackle the Accountability Issue
- Managing and Building Relationships with the Decision Makers
- Unnecessary Concern about CMOs in Connecticut
- Friendly Fire from AEI
- We Want YOUR Ideas for the Next Leadership Conference
- Lenders and Authorizers: Can We Talk?
- #CharterSchoolsWeek: Finding the Right Fit
- Thirteen Years Later, I’m Still an Ambassador for Charter Schools
- Oklahoma Governor Signs Comprehensive Charter School Bill, Expands Charter Schools Statewide
- Who wants to be an Authorizer? Pennsylvania Colleges and Universities Say Not It!
- Colorado’s New Charter Law Will Help Grow Charters Responsibly
- #AskAuthorizers: What do YOU want to know?
- Learning How to Streamline an Early Childhood Accountability System that Actually Works
- A Hat Tip to the SUNY Charter Schools Institute
- Buckeye Blues Again
- Lessons from the Road to Better Accountability
- Open for Comment
- Student Discipline, School Choice, and Charter School Flexibility
- Promoting Quality Charter Schools with Quality Authorizing
- Demystifying School Choice
- Passionate Advocate for Children and Former Authorizer Joins NACSA Staff
- Responsible Governance, Strong Authorizing, and Smart Policy
- Beyond the Divide: A Better Conversation on Charter Schools
- NACSA Calls Annenberg Institute Accountability Report Disappointing, Incomplete
- Strengthening Michigan’s Charter Law
- Rigorous Charter Renewal Standards Are Crucial for Quality
- Good Due Diligence is Paramount
- No Excuses
- Keeping Personalized Learning Schools On Track
- Making Quality the Norm
- Just the Facts, in Abundance
- Success and Opportunities through Quality Charter Schools
- An Intentional Focus on Quality
- Strong progress toward One Million Lives
- Low Expectations Are Not the Right Expectations
- Buckets of Charter Schools
- Growing Charter Schools with a Strong Eye for Quality is Not Only Possible; It is Essential.
- A National Response to CSP Guidance
- No Time to Waste
- Accountability in Action
- Charters Survive First Court Challenge in Washington State
- This is Bigger than Us: Some Thoughts on Charter School LEA Status in Tennessee
- Can States Show Congress the Way?
- Anecdotes Aren’t Enough
- After the Shutdowns
- A Bridge to Better Schools
- Unpacking the Special Education Story
- Collaborate to Innovate
- Restarting for Real
- Improve Quality with Smart Policy and Strong Accountability
- Lenders and Authorizers: Can We Talk?
- The Challenge Ahead
- On Charter School Discipline: Autonomy, Due Process, and Shared Responsibility
- Action in the Statehouses: Part III
- Staying Immersed
- Texas-sized Improvements
- How much progress is enough?
- Action in the Statehouses: Part 2
- What’s in a Name? Authorizing vs. Sponsorship
- Action in the Statehouses
- Standing Up for Quality
- Creating an Ecosystem for Accountability
- Evidence to the Contrary
- Stronger Still
- Redefining the School District, Tennessee-style
- Key Findings from “The State of Charter School Authorizing 2012”
- Mississippi Adopts New Charter School Law
- Active Authorizing
- A Step Forward for Charter School Quality in Texas
- Real Parent Empowerment without a War
- Playing Political Football with Kids’ Lives
- Protecting Student and Public Interests
- Helping Charter Schools Better Serve English Language Learners
- School Choice for All
- Scaling Quality, Closing Failure
- Postcard from the Statehouse: St. Paul, MN
- Core Principles and Essential Practices
- Accountability in Minnesota
- Postcard from the Statehouse: Nashville, TN
- Beware Charter School Authorizer Shopping
- One Million Lives In Action: Ball State University
- New CREDO Study Finds Massachusetts Charter School Students Making Greater Gains
- NACSA Commends KIPP on Strong Student Achievement
- KIPP Impact: “Statistically significant, and educationally substantial”
- UFT Charter School Gets Improve-or-Close Renewal
- More on Authorizer Accountability in Michigan
- Postcard from the Statehouse: Austin, Texas
- No Exit?
- Access is Not Optional
- Accepting Accountability
- Four Tips for Cage-Busting Authorizers
- Joint–Not-Central–Planning for All DC Public Schools
- Silver Bullets and Unicorns
- School Performance Analysis 2.0
- The Tide Rises in Washington D.C.
- Standards and Accountability for Charter School Authorizers
- Low-Performing Charter Schools Fight Closure in Indiana
- Closing bad charters isn’t the only challenge
- Visualizing the Need for Great New Schools
- D.C. debates growth of charter schools
- New schools, new opportunities—seven steps to strategic change
- New CREDO Study Confirms Need for Smarter Replication and Faster Action on Failing Schools
- Give Quality a Chance: Maine Commission Working to Set High Standards
- Ball State Stands Up for Quality
- Smarter Growth: Indiana Replicates High-Performing Schools
- Pending Charter Closure in D.C.
- Waiting on Recommendations in Indiana
- Chicago Public Schools Promises Accountability for Low-Performing Charters
- Visualizing Teacher Prep Outcomes
- Welcome to Chartering Quality
- NACSA Commends U.S. Department of Education for Recognizing Charters and Authorizing in ESEA Waiver Process

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