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Diverse-by-Design Charter Schools are Making a Difference

Prioritizing diversity as a core value of a charter school tends to improve behavioral and academic outcomes for students, according to a new study from a team at Teachers College with Columbia University headed by Professor Priscilla Wohlstetter.  “Moving the Needle on Desegregation: Performance Outcomes and Implementation Lessons from...

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Stuff Happens: Informing the Muni Market Upon an Emergency Event at Your Charter School

“That’ll never happen!”  While we all may have said that at one point in our lives, we are probably saying it less in the past two years.  Large-scale tropical storms, disease outbreaks, fires and significant weather damage are among the emergency events that can have a material adverse impact on the finances and operations of a charter school...

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North Carolina Charter School Enrollment Soars in 2021

If you are a charter school bond investor having nightmares that COVID would take a toll on charter school enrollment, you are in for a good night’s sleep. In a review of enrollment trends, the School Improvement Partnership (SIP) Database confirms an enrollment increase of over 10% from 2018 through 2020 at all North Carolina charter schools.  A...

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Charter Schools at Age 30: Can Facilities Keep Up?

When former Minnesota State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge traveled the tumultuous journey to pass the first charter school law in the nation on June 4, 1991, the issue of charter school facilities was rarely mentioned in any debate.  “Legislators assumed that charter schools would have access to existing school facilities or other buildings,” she...

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Is Your Charter School Bond a Social Bond?

  School Improvement Partnership: Social Bond Questionnaire Is the percentage of economically disadvantaged students enrolled in your charter school above 60%? Is the academic growth of those students higher than that of such students enrolled in the host district? Does your charter school have a BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color)...

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