Texas Public Charter School Program Start-Up Grant Evaluation Report: 2016-17 and 2017-18
Project
Evaluation of Public Charter School Program Start-Up Grant
Description
Safal was hired by the Texas Education Agency to evaluate the impact of their Charter School Start-Up (CSP) program. This program grants funds to eligible applicants to build new charter schools across the state. Safal was the prime evaluator for this contract and partnered with Mathematica Policy Research and Gibson Consulting to conduct the mixed method evaluation. Safal completed the evaluation of TEA’s CSP grantee performance and practices. Safal defined high-quality charter schools and identified best practices of high-quality charter schools. In addition to developing this benchmark, Safal evaluated how Start-Up grantees are performing in comparison to their best-in-class peers. Safal developed interim and final reports describing the results of the quantitative and qualitative data analyses. These reports will influence the startup of new charter schools in the future, as well as decisions around their funding.
