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Stakeholder Satisfaction Surveys
We have developed an online stakeholder satisfaction surveys to assist schools in assessing their performance. The surveys assess performance from the perspectives of parents, students and staff.
Survey results are useful as a school management and accountability tool. The results also offer useful information for the school accreditation and the charter school renewal processes.
Learn how your school can participate in USC-SSS.
Charter School Indicators - USC
In the spring of each year, we release an annual report on the performance of charter schools in California, CSI-USC. The report assesses performance in terms of both academic and financial measures. Beginning with the third annual report, data are reported for individual charter schools, as well as statewide with comparisons of charter and non-charter public schools.
CSI-USC 2007
CSI-USC 2008
CSI-USC 2009
Compendium of Promising Practices: Highlighting Innovations in Charter Schools
We offer a Web-based compendium of promising practices. Each promising practice profile provides information about the implementation and impact of the strategy. Promising practice profiles are in two areas: educational reform and school governance. The goal of the compendium, is to offer evidence-based strategies for improving the quality and sustainability of all public schools, both charter and district-run.
Access the Compendium of Promising Practices
The National Resource Center on Charter School Finance and Governance
Emerging research suggests that most charter schools that fail are forced to close for non-academic reasons, most often because of organizational mismanagement and financial difficulties. The National Resource Center on Charter School Finance and Governance provides an array of information to help policy makers, charter school authorizers and operators build and support high-performing charter schools. The NRC Web site contains an information clearinghouse; promising practices related to finance and governance; state policy guides; and tools and resources to help the charter school community assess the financial strength and governance capacity of charter schools.
CharterConnect.org
Partnering with the charter school community, we are developing an interactive Web site – CharterConnect.org– that will become the “go-to” site for information sharing and social networking for leaders in the California charter school community – founders, school directors, governing board members, charter school authorizers, policy makers, researchers, and funders and other community partners. The site will contain information about the education programs in charters and also multiple measures for assessing charter school performance.
