Charter School Expansion. Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, 1998. (371/W7n) 1997 Wisconsin Act 238 expanded the establishment of a charter school in Wisconsin to corporations or nonsectarian private schools. http://www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/pubs/Lb/98Lb10.pdf
Charter School Program. Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau, 1998. (371/W7o) First audit of Wisconsin charter schools required by 1993 Wisconsin Act 16. http://www.legis.wisconsin.gov/lab/reports/98-15tear.htm
The Charter School Roadmap. Education Commission of the States and National Conference of State Legislatures, 1998. (371/Ed8f) Covers issues in starting a charter school program.
Charter Schools. Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Digest 118, February 1998, Clearinghouse on Educational Management. College of Education, University of Oregon. http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest118.html
Charter Schools. Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau, January 2001. (371/W7) History of the charter school movement in Wisconsin and the financial issues. Earlier editions in state documents: LFB/i/1995-97, pt.33; LFB/i/1997-99, pt.32; LFB/i/1999-2001, pt.31.
Charter Schools. Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, February 2001. (371/W75d) "In the 2000-01 school year, Wisconsin has 92 charter schools educating more than 10,500 students. The number of charter schools has grown rapidly since 1999, making it one of the fastest-growing public education programs."
Charter Schools: A Reference Handbook. Danny K. Weil, 2000. (371/W42) Historical background of the charter school movement as an educational reform approach. Includes bibliography, directory of organizations, and individual schools.
[Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities]. U.S. Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2001. (373.9/X10) Pt.1: Review of Charter School Legislation Provisions Related to Students with Disabilities, 1999, http://www.ed.gov/pubs/chartlegis; pt.2: Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities: Review of Existing Data, 1999, http://www.ed.gov/pubs/chartdisab; pt.3: Charter Schools and Students with Disabilities: A National Study, 2001, http://www.uscharterschools.org/pdf/fr/sped_natl_study.pdf. In general, mildly handicapped students succeed almost as well as in local schools, depending on staff and financial support. Most charter schools seldom train more severely disabled students.
Charter Schools: State Developments and Federal Policy Options. U.S. Congressional Research Service, Education and Public Welfare Division, 1998. (371/X8) Research report to U.S. Senate on a charter school program proposed by HR 2616.
"An Evaluation of Charter School Effectiveness". Qiuyun Lin, Education, Fall 2001, v.122, no.1. (371/L63)
Expanding the Charter Idea: A Template for Legislative & Policy Reform. Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1999. (371/P11a) Discusses the growth and politics of the charter school movement and strategies to expand it.
[Federal Funding of Charter Schools]. U.S. General Accounting Office. (371/X7) Pt.1: Charter Schools: Federal Funding Available but Barriers Exist, April 1998; pt.2: Charter Schools: Limited Access to Facility Financing, September 2000. http://www.gao.gov/ Search: "charter schools"
The Impact of Charter Schools on School Districts: A Report of the National Study of Charter Schools. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, 2001. (371/X5) "Explores the operational and educational changes in districts that administrators attribute to charter schools, and the conditions under which districts tend to make changes."-p.iii. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/chartimpact
New Law Relating to Charter Schools (1993 Wisconsin Act 16). Wisconsin Legislative Council Staff, 1994. (371/W7m) Regulations governing the creation of a charter school in Wisconsin, as established by 1993 Wisconsin Act 16.
1999-2000 Collection of ECS StateNotes. Education Commission of the States, 2000. (370/Ed82h) Education legislation passed by 18 states in 1999-2000. http://www.ecs.org/html/educationIssues/ECSStateNotes.asp
On Thin Ice: How Advocates and Opponents Could Misread the Public's Views On Vouchers and Charter Schools - A Report From Public Agenda. Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson, and Anthony Foleno, with Ann Duffett and Patrick Foley, 1999. (371.2/P961) Questions public opinion on charter and choice schools, even though the schools often exclude average or physically and mentally challenged students.
Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools. Brian P. Gill, P. Michael Timpane, Karen E. Ross, Dominic J. Brewer, 2001. http://www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR1118
The State of Charter Schools 2000, Fourth-Year Report. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, January 2000. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/charter4thyear
Ten Problems with Charter Schools. Larry Kuehn, British
Columbia Teachers' Federation, 1995.
http://www.bctf.bc.ca/education/choice/charter.html
Venturesome Capital: State Charter School Finance Systems. American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation, 2000. (371.2/X24) "The First Report of the National Charter School Finance Study examines the laws, regulations and state practices governing charter school finance during the 1998-99 school year in 23 states and two cities"-p.1 http://www.aft.org/charterfinance/venturesome/index.html
Wisconsin Charter Schools. Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 2000. (371/W7b/2000) Most recent annual report on Wisconsin charter schools discusses selected Wisconsin charter schools. Earlier editions in state documents: PubI/w/1996-97; PubI/w/1999.
Related Web Sites
All of the following Web sites include information on charter school establishment, links to other Web sites and publications, and often bibliographies. This is only a sampling of the multitude of sites available on the topic of charter schools.
Selected Government Sites:
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dfm/sms/csindex.html - Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/charter - California Department of Education.
http://www.doe.mass.edu/cs.www - Massachusetts Department of Education.
http://www.nycharterschools.org/main.html - New York Charter School Resource Center.
http://www.pde.psu.edu/charter.html - Pennsylvania Department of Education.
http://www.charterschools.ca - Canadian Charter Schools Research and Professional Development Centre.
Selected Research Sites:
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/education/k12/charter.html - Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Subject Guide, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
http://www.edreform.com/charter_schools - Center for Education Reform, 1001 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 204, Washington, DC 20036.
http://www.csus.edu/ier/charter/charter.html - Charter Schools Development Center (CSDC), California State University Institute for Education Reform, 6000 J Street, Foley Hall, Room 327, Sacremento, CA 95819-6018.
http://www.heritage.org/library/keyissues/education/schoolchoice.html - The Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002-4999.
http://iis.syr.edu - Information Institute of Syracuse, Syracuse University, School of Information Studies.
http://www.nea.org/issues/charter/resources.html - National Education Association (NEA), 1201 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20034.
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/timely/charters.htm - North Central Regional Educational Laboratory. Includes Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin. 1120 East Diehl Rd., Suite 200, Naperville, IL 60563.
http://www.uscharterschools.org - WestEd Regional Educational Laboratory (CA) and the U.S. Department of Education.
Clippings:
(Noncirculating; available for use in the library; clippings prior to 1981 are on microfiche)
Administration of elementary and secondary education; charter schools: 371/W7z (WI); 371/Z (U.S.)
BadgerLink: http://www.badgerlink.net
Search the ProQuest Newspapers and EBSCOhost magazines databases for full text articles. Suggested search words: charter schools.
