Sunday, September 25, 2011

For Charter Schools, Managing Mission Is Crucial

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AppId is over the quota
By Peter Frumkin, Bruno V. Manno, and Nell Edgington

The charter school movement has received plenty of advice on policy and practice issues in recent years. Policy analysts have debated the best way to promote chartering at the state and federal levels, while education consultants and support organizations have focused on advising schools on operating more effectively.

But considerably less work has been done on bringing the disparate pieces of charter school management together into a coherent strategic framework.

Issues such as curriculum design, financial management, policy advocacy, community relations, parent involvement, staff development, and long-term planning have been treated as largely isolated, technical tasks, to be dealt with on an urgent, as-needed basis. The result has been an approach to charter school management that consists largely of putting out one fire after another, leaving little time to think in...

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