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Charter Schools and Authorizers

Your OSBA Charter School Team

 Kristen Miles                This is an image of Spencer Lewis

 Kristen Miles             Spencer Lewis
 Board Development Specialist             Director of Policy Services

 

Oregon resources

  • Oregon Public Charter School Handbook (443k This file is in Microsoft Word format. Click here to download.)  - Oregon Department of Education handbook explaining the purpose of a charter school and the process for starting one.
  • Dept of Ed's (ODE) Charter School Information - Information from the Oregon Department of Education regarding Oregon's charter school law.
  • Oregon Revised Statutes, Chapter 338 - Public Charter Schools
  • Oregon Administrative Rules, Chapter 581 and Chapter 584

National resources

  • NSBA Charter School Resource Center - You can find useful resources, including definitions of charter terms, NSBA’s advocacy message, research, state policy and news articles.
  • Regional Education Laboratory Northwest: Charter Schools - REL Northwest provides a variety of services and information regarding Charter Schools throughout the Northwest. Current projects include the development of charter school leadership training, collection and dissemination of charter school training materials, and state and school level evaluation services.
  • America's Charter Schools - The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) conducted a pilot study of America's charter schools and their students as part of the 2003 NAEP assessments in reading and mathematics at the fourth-grade level. 
  • On Thin Ice: How Advocates and Opponents Could Misread the Public's Views on Vouchers and Charter Schools - Summary of a study released by Public Agenda, a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research group, that posed more than 40 questions on vouchers and charters to 1200 Americans.

 

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