reachcentered.org/publications #NewResearch explores how #charterschool authorizers shape #equity. Katy Bulkley

🚨 Attention Buffalo Families🚨 BRICK Buffalo Charter School has 3 open houses coming up. Don't miss this opportunity to learn more about the school and get a feel for what it's like to walk the hallways. Scan the QR code to register! Brick Education Network

Like Citizen Stewart, as the leader of chartercollab and as a former authorizer, I am committed to #CommunityCharters. M. Karega Rausch and NACSA are also focused on this effort thru Communities at the Center. Visit withcommunities.org to learn more.

We've been waiting to talk about the huge impact #CommunityCharters are making in the education space. "Community Charters are created in ways that are purposefully a safe harbor for historically marginalized students to be affirmed and educated. They are edpost.com/stories/commun…

It’s a sad day when #SchoolChoice strategists basically admit it’s not about academic outcomes or leveling the playing field for Americans who struggle most, but, instead, it’s about stoking the biases of middle-class families against everyone who is unlike them.

"Proposals for new learning opportunities that do not protect student and public interests should not be public charter schools." More on our statement on the OK SVCSB decision here: qualitycharters.org/2023/06/nacsa-…

Charter schools are “the only story in U.S. education policy where we’ve been able to create a set of conditions such that schools actually do get better” Macke Raymond CREDO at Stanford 🎤

NACSA's podcast, Community Conversations, now streaming wherever you listen! In our first episode, Courtney Hughley and M. Karega Rausch, Ph.D., sit down to dispel myths about charter school oversight and accountability. buzzsprout.com/2208122/share

Had the opportunity to present on behalf of NACSA to NASBE NCOSEA 2023 Conference on legal challenges in the charter sector today, thank you for having me!

A Progressive Vision for Educational Choice: 5 Questions to Ask The 74 the74million.org/article/a-prog…

"I've visited charters in every region of the country, and each has rendered the same complaint: No one outside their small community listens to them." Tressa Pankovits PPI Reinventing America’s Schools on how Biden can win voters by embracing school choice. wsj.com/articles/schoo…

This perspective misses the enormous costs families bear when they are forced to “hold schools accountable.” I know about these costs because I once had to do exactly what parents at Hive Academy did. Here’s my story. 1/

The House Committee on Education and the Workforce will consider the Empower Charter School Educators to Lead Act on Thursday, along with several other bills. Learn more about the bill: publiccharters.org/news/how-the-e…

Why does the free mkt logic fail in education? A long thread below. Very relevant to current #vouchers #ESA debate. You can see the whole paper (ungated) here: edworkingpapers.com/authors/dougla… + journal version here: journals.sagepub.com/stoken/default…

OK ruling is clear: charter schools are public schools. From the ruling, charter schools are "surrogate[s] of the State in providing free public education" and "are public schools created through governmental action." apnews.com/article/public…

Read the full statement from NACSA President & CEO, M. Karega Rausch, Ph.D. on today’s Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that the decision from the Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board (SVCSB) to approve an application to establish the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic

Amid explosion of school choice, report spotlights the marginalized families left behind buff.ly/4gvtoZO

Great examples of how authorizing can shift "from paper to people" in evaluating new school applications NACSA qualitycharters.org/2025/01/the-3-…

This moment we've come to is mostly a squandered opportunity. Via Eduwonk:

Thrilled to part of PIE Network Leadership Institute Cohort 10 alongside so many other incredible leaders in the education space! pie-network.org/what-we-do/lea…