Resources

Resources

• Leadership Insider, Winter 2005 [PDF 617,709kb]
  In this issue: School boards as charter school authorizers.
  
• School Choice Guidance [PDF 112,245kb]
  Source: U.S. Department of Education
  
• Guiding Principles for Business and School Partnerships [PDF 481,280kb]
• National Association of Charter School Authorizers
  The National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) is “a professional organization of authorizers and other education leaders who work to achieve quality public charter schools.” This site includes many resources on high quality authorizing.
  
• National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
  The center at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, “provides independent, non-partisan information on and analysis of privatization in education.” The center's program includes research, evaluation, conferences, publications, and dissemination on a full range of issues regarding privatization of education, including school choice, charter schools, private schools, vouchers, tuition tax credits, and home-schooling.
  
• Voucher Strategy Center
  NSBA is committed to advocating the key role public schools play in our democratic society. As such, we support initiatives to strengthen the public schools and oppose measures, such as vouchers and tuition tax credits, which undermine public education. In recognition of the push for vouchers, tuition tax credits and other privatization measures in Congress and some state legislatures, we have created this voucher strategy center -- a clearinghouse of helpful information on these issues.
  
• Charter Schools in Georgia
  This book describes how a charter school in Georgia is formed and what the roles and responsibilities are of the local board, state board, and charter school.
  
• NASBE's State Education Standard
  The Autumn 2003 issue of the National Association of Boards of Education's journal, the State Education Standard, addresses the current state of the charter school movement, state charter policy, state and local chartering of schools, local school board concerns and challenges, charter accountability problems, the No Child Left Behind Act's implications for charter schools, cyber charters, and finance autonomy. From this page, scroll down to the August 2003 issue.
  
• NCES Fast Facts Too: Homeschooling
  National Center for Education Statistics.