Good schools, start with good boards. A look at the importance and impact of a strong, committed school board when it comes to charter school success and growth.
) works with senior leadership to decide which charter schools get approval to open and which schools earn the right to stay open.
Compared to other intervention strategies, Frank sees governance as high leverage. And many boards “don’t do a good job of knowing the standards by which their authorizer is evaluating them or their schools, let alone using these transparent standards to evaluate the school leader they have chosen.” “For struggling schools trying to improve, and even good schools on their way to becoming great schools, boards and the oversight our most successful boards engage in, make a big difference,” said Frank. are developing strong pipelines of community-based school leaders,” said Frank, “but thinking just as deeply about fostering strong boards, like Building Excellent Schools does, is not as common.”
“In the past, if the school leader was fantastic and the board less so, authorizers may have approved the application. But after 20 years of charter schools operating here in New York, the data shows that applicant groups without strong boards just don’t get results for children.
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