At SchoolWorks®, we understand that charter school authorizers are the gatekeepers of educational quality and equity, holding schools accountable for delivering on the promise of exceptional education for all students. Authorizers must strike a delicate balance—maintaining rigorous oversight while also supporting innovation and fostering continuous improvement. From navigating complex regulatory frameworks to making high-stakes decisions around application approvals, renewals, and closures, the work of authorizing is both demanding and consequential.
Recognizing these challenges, SchoolWorks provides expert guidance and customized solutions designed to empower authorizers to carry out their responsibilities with confidence and clarity. Our services are grounded in decades of experience and aligned with national best practices, allowing us to support agencies at any stage of development. Whether the goal is to streamline processes, build internal capacity, enhance transparency, or improve student outcomes, our team partners with authorizers to design and implement strategies that are practical, scalable, and rooted in the unique needs of each organization.
SchoolWorks® provides flexible, high-quality support to authorizers by managing critical, time-sensitive responsibilities that are essential to strong oversight but often require additional capacity. By partnering with SchoolWorks®, authorizers can maintain rigorous standards, ensure timely and transparent decision-making, and stay focused on their core mission—without compromising quality or compliance.
At SchoolWorks®, our team of nationally recognized experts delivers high-impact training and guidance on every aspect of charter school authorizing. We offer flexible professional development options—including in-person workshops, virtual sessions, and on-demand learning modules—to meet the diverse needs and schedules of authorizing teams. We partner with authorizers to customize each training experience, ensuring alignment with state and local policy contexts, as well as agency-specific goals and priorities. Through our comprehensive support, authorizing staff and leadership teams build the skills and confidence needed to uphold quality, accountability, and continuous improvement in charter schooling.
To help charter school authorizers enhance their effectiveness, SchoolWorks® conducts comprehensive assessments of authorizer performance aligned with nationally recognized best practices and standards. Following the assessment, we work collaboratively with authorizer teams to develop tailored improvement strategies that enhance organizational efficiency, increase transparency, and drive stronger educational outcomes. By aligning authorizer functions with national benchmarks and local priorities, we help ensure that charter oversight leads to a high-quality, equitable education landscape.
“Through our work together, SchoolWorks developed a truly nuanced understanding of the needs of Louisiana’s students. We appreciate the company’s work as a thought partner, its high standards of quality, as well as the high levels of evidence and detail in its recommendations to the Department.”
Lauren Perry
Former Executive Director of Portfolio, Louisiana Department of Education
“Kathryn [our Project Manager] has been amazing. She’s super organized, and we appreciate how she runs the meetings. She’s clear about who is doing what, next steps, and she helps us problem-solve.”
Tiffany Young
Specialist, Office of New Initiatives at Baltimore City Public Schools
SchoolWorks® has supported charter school authorizers since 1998. We currently partner with authorizers in over half of the states that have enacted charter school laws.
Our team members have extensive professional experience in the charter school sector – serving as authorizers, leading charter school associations, managing charter school incubators, and more.
Leveraging our extensive experience and utilizing both state charter school laws and national standards as frameworks, our experts deliver outcome-focused support.
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