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  • Considering School Turnarounds: Market Research and Analysis
    March 2007

    Across the country, an increasing number of states and districts are taking action to turn around their chronically underperforming schools. As a result, a new market is rapidly emerging for school providers willing to help school systems tackle this challenge.

  • Charter Schools and the Capital Markets
    January 2007

    Although charter schools are a promising innovation in education, their growth is hamstrung by a lack of sustaining capital, which is required to fill the gap between the per-pupil funds charter schools receive and the amount they need to develop effective organizations that provide consistent and high-quality education services and back-office support for their schools.

  • Charter Management Organizations: Toward Scale with Quality
    December 2006

    For more than a decade, charter schools have been an important innovation and a means for improving public education. However, the charter school movement must find new ways to increase the quality and supply of these public schools in order to meet the scale of the demand from parents and communities.

  • Nonprofit Real Estate Trusts: Viable Solutions to the Charter School Facilities Challenge
    September 2006

    One of the most persistent challenges that charter school entrepreneurs face is in finding, developing and paying for school facilities. The crux of the problem is that charter school operators and systems are forced to excel in two businesses simultaneously: the business of educating our nation’s most underserved children, and the business of real estate development. Facilities financing and development are simply not core competencies of a charter school team, nor should they be.

  • Expanding the Supply of High-Quality Public Schools
    September 2005

    The Bridgespan Group, NewSchools Venture Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have been working individually and collectively with a wide range of school development organizations to increase the number of high-performing centers of learning. Through this work, we have sought answers to persistent questions of how to replicate the successes and raise the quality of U.S. public education.

  • A Building Need: Charter Schools in Search of Good Homes
    February 2005

    Although charter schools are public schools, and often serve the neediest children in a given area, they rarely receive adequate funding for facilities. This situation endangers the basic accountability equation that served as the rationale for creating charter schools in the first place: charter schools are expected to deliver improved academic results in return for freedom from many state and local mandates, but the lack of facilities financing leaves them competing with traditional public schools on an uneven playing field.