• Met API growth target in the prior year or two of three previous years or aggregate for prior three years
• Met API state or comparison rank of 4 or higher in the prior year or two of three previous years
• Academic performance at least equals that of the public schools the students would have attended and of the other district schools where the charter is located
• Qualified for the Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM)

Those who may be affected by these provisions and would like renewal assistance, please contact us about our Accountability Services and our Charter School Renewal Tool Kit at CSDC@chartercenter.org or 916-278-6069.

No Child Left Behind Resources
No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has left California and states across the country scrambling to understand how to comply with the new laws and understand how the new laws will be interpreted. If you are interested in learning more about the basics of NCLB and how it affects charter schools, please email CSDC at CSDC@chartercenter.org.

API News. Veteran charter schools out-performed non-charter schools and their younger charter peers according to the recently released 2002 API base scores. In addition, an analysis of this past fall's API growth scores shows that 70 percent of charter schools demonstrated improvement over their previous year's scores. While the percentage of charter schools receiving API scores is still quite limited and API scores are only one indicator of academic success, these early results, nonetheless, are promising. By Michael Agostini.

School Reform, Accountability, and Charter Schools. This six-page briefing paper addresses one of the most fundamental and important challenges facing charter schools: how to develop, articulate, and assess student outcomes and progress toward meeting outcomes. The paper sets the context for school accountability, explains why student performance is of critical importance for charter developers and sponsors, and clarifies what student outcomes are and how to develop and measure them. The paper also highlights how two California charter schools addressed outcome and assessment issues in their charter development process. Charter developers and sponsors will find this briefing provides an essential overview in clear, easy to understand terms. By Linda Diamond.

This section is currently under construction. Additional resources will be posted soon.

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