CS Research Updates September 1999 This document is one of a series of A Comparison of Charter reports of the National Study of Charter Legislation: Thirty-three states and Schools sponsored by the U.S. the District of Columbia Department of Education. This report incorporating legislative changes provides a summary comparative through October, 1998. overview of the charter laws of the 33 states and the District of Columbia that had enacted legislation as of October 1998. Information contained in this report is current as of the conclusion of 1998 state legislative sessions, except in those states where legislative sessions continued through the end of the year. Data were verified in October and November 1998.
Brigham and Nahas, "competition and collaboration:How CT charter schools Relate to their neighborhood Districts," Institute for Responsive education, September 16, 1999. National Study of Charter Schools: Third-Year Report. The third installment of a four year study by Research, Policy and Practice, International (RPP International), and the University of Minnesota Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement (CAREI), sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE).
The Third-Year Report focuses on growth trends, school and student characteristics, challenges to implemenation, and accountability. The findings presented in the report rely on three waves of telephone surveys to all cooperating charter schools that were open to children during the 1997-1998 school year, visits to 91 field sites across the country, and extensive analysis of state charter laws.
Susan Aud, "Competition in Education: a 1999 update of school choice in MA," Pioneer Institute, White paper, 1999.
As of February 1999 1. * National Study of Charter Schools: Second-Year Report, U.S. DOE RPP & The Second-^
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