The National Charter School Resource Center (NCSRC) released a new toolkit aimed at providing Charter Support Organizations (CSOs) and charter school founders with new resources on what it takes to open a new charter school.

This report explores charter school facility and policy-related issues in the state of Delaware, including shared use information, facility amenities, ownership, financing, grade levels, and waiting lists. Findings are based on a 2016 survey completed by all eligible charter school facilities in the state.

Safal performed an analysis of key documents and interviewed the school’s leadership, teachers, board members, students, and members of the community to synthesize the factors that made the transformation possible. Safal supported the school in sharing its lessons learned with other districts and educators.

Cornville Regional Charter School has fully integrated proficiency-based personalized learning into their curriculum. Personalized learning is a philosophy that uses student-centered practices and technology to integrate individual student interests and pacing into the curriculum, while following state and federal learning standards.

These tools present concise, visual representations of the thinking behind a proposal and the work required to execute it. This second webinar continued the discussion started in the 2017 CSP SEA Meeting of Project Directors in a round-table format.

This report examines recent research and identifies common findings for policymakers, parents, educators, and other stakeholders seeking to gain a better understanding of the effectiveness of charter schools.

Safal conducted field research on collaborations in the country for this toolkit. The report is written to assist district and charter representatives interested in establishing a new collaboration or in increasing the effectiveness of an existing collaboration.

This webinar focuses on the state of special education in charter schools, how charter schools can create partnerships to expand capacity for special education, and other ways to improve services to students with disabilities.

These schools across the nation have made remark- able strides in the achievement of their EL students. With the objective of promoting best practices, Safal interviewed school leaders and showed their models in action.

This report describes the sources and types of financial aid available to post-secondary students in Texas, how financial aid is packaged at different types of institutions, and the effects of financial aid on post-secondary persistence and completion.

Safal Partners was commissioned to evaluate and outline the progress of Educate Texas’s post-secondary programs, such as Early College High Schools (ECHS) and Texas Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (T-STEM) Academies.

This report highlights a range of practices and funding strategies used by charter schools to improve the achievement of EL students in the wider community.