Charter schools and accountability in public education /

Charter schools and accountability in public education /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hill, Paul T. (Paul Thomas), 1943-
Imprint:	Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 125 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Charter schools -- United States -- Evaluation. Educational accountability -- United States. Education -- Standards -- United States. Charter schools -- Evaluation. Education -- Standards. Educational accountability. United States. Electronic book. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11127304

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Other authors / contributors:	Lake, Robin J. Celio, Mary Beth.
ISBN:	081579858X 9780815798583 9780815702665 0815702663 9780815702672 0815702671
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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. In return for entering these performance agreements, charter schools are exempt from some regulations that apply to conventional public schools." "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, interviewing school principals, teachers, staff members, parents, governing board members, and authorizing agency officials. They supplemented the results of state and school case studies with data from a nationally representative survey of charter schools."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Hill, Paul T. (Paul Thomas), 1943- Charter schools and accountability in public education. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2002 0815702663 0815702671

Table of Contents:

Charter schools and accountability
Charter laws and politics
Internal accountability
Authorizing agencies
Accountability to others
Recommendations
Learning from charter school accountability.