National Charter School Dissemination Grant
CCAP has been awarded a federal National Charter School Dissemination Grant designed to support district authorizers in strengthening their charter school authorizing and oversight practices. This grant, in collaboration with chartering authorizing organizations in Florida and Colorado, is known as the Tri-State Alliance for Improving District-Led Charter Authorizing.
This project supports the improvement of the practices of all authorizers, including small and rural authorizers, so outcomes improve and expand quality choices for all families and students. Resulting from this alliance will be the creation and dissemination of replicable best-practice resources to support effective authorizing and charter school oversight by school districts, including small/rural authorizers. This goal emphasizes peer-to-peer efforts to improve professional practice through state-based work that leverages nationally-recognized tools and procedures.
The National Dissemination Grant, known as the Tri-State Alliance, focuses on strengthening charter school authorizing and oversight in the following areas:
- Conducting application review
- Establishing governance standards and practices
- Promoting and monitoring the compliance of charter schools with Federal, State or local academic, financial and operational requirements
- Evaluating school performance
- Facilitating the replication and expansion of high-quality schools
- Improving schools’ academic, financial or operational performance
- Closing persistently underperforming schools
If you are interested in attending one of the CCAP meetings to learn more about the work we are doing, please contact Tom Hutton, Executive Director by either email or phone.
Tom.Hutton@calauthorizers.org
916-244-3520 ext. 101
Tri-State Alliance to Improve District-Led Charter Authorizing
The Four Goals of the National Charter School Dissemination Grant:
- Â Goal 1: Improve authorizer practices by developing model materials that reflect best practices in charter school authorizing and providing professional development and technical assistance to authorizers;
- Goal 2: Improve access, services, and outcomes for disadvantaged students in charter schools, including students with disabilities and English language learners by helping charter schools and districts adopt improved practices;
- Goal 3: Engage and provide support to more district authorizers, ultimately supporting all authorizing districts, including small and rural districts, districts that oversee small numbers of charter schools, and those overseeing charter schools with problems in performance or compliance; and
- Goal 4: Support states outside the Tri-State Alliance dissemination grant, especially states where districts are the predominant authorizers, to advance similar goals by helping authorizer work together.