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Mariano, Louis T.; Steiner, Elizabeth D.; Pane, Joseph D.; Lawrence, Rebecca Ann – RAND Corporation, 2021
In fall 2017, Propel Schools initiated the expansion of one of its schools, Propel Montour. Originally a single K-8 school with two classrooms per grade, Montour added a new high school and expanded into separate elementary and middle schools over four years, adding a classroom to each grade. In this report, the authors used…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Expansion, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Sarah R. Cohodes; Elizabeth Setren; Christopher R. Walters – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Can schools that boost student outcomes reproduce their success at new campuses? We study a policy reform that allowed effective charter schools in Boston, Massachusetts to replicate their school models at new locations. Estimates based on randomized admission lotteries show that replication charter schools generate large achievement gains on par…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Effectiveness, Educational Quality, Effective Schools Research
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Jacobs, Joanne – Education Next, 2013
Named Charter Leader of the Year in 2010 by the California Charter Schools Association, Diane Tavenner, CEO of Summit Public Schools, is responsible for the generation of multiple transformative schools and a radically different teaching model for Summit. Summit's first charter high school, Summit Prep, launched in 2003, was featured in the film…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Development, Program Descriptions, School Expansion