SchoolWorks® partners with authorizers to design, refine, and strengthen the core resources needed to ensure transparency, consistency, and accountability in the charter oversight process. Whether you're developing new assets or seeking to improve an existing oversight system, our experienced team will collaborate with you to assess your current practices and develop tailored solutions aligned to your mission, vision, and local context. We work side by side with your staff to ensure every tool reflects your priorities and supports high-quality outcomes.
Our team brings deep expertise in charter authorizing, education policy, and systems design. We engage stakeholders, review existing resources, and draw from national best practices to create practical, high-impact tools that are both rigorous and user-friendly.
A well-designed Academic Performance Framework enables authorizers to make informed decisions about renewal, intervention, and support, while providing schools with clear expectations that drive continuous improvement and equitable outcomes for students. To help your team design or refine this essential resource, our team will review your current organizational assets and lead a structured development process that incorporates state accountability requirements, national best practices, and your unique mission and vision. The final product is a transparent, defensible resource that empowers your team to make informed, data-driven decisions and fosters continuous improvement among the schools you oversee.
Establishing successful schools begins with a rigorous, well-designed process for evaluating new school applications. SchoolWorks collaborates with your stakeholders to build or refine rubrics and guidance resources that eliminate ambiguity, promote transparency, and reflect national best practices. The result is a streamlined, trustworthy process that strengthens the quality and integrity of your application evaluations.
SchoolWorks partners with your team to develop or refine the essential tools for renewal—including your renewal criteria, renewal application, and renewal site visit protocol. We begin by reviewing your current policies and practices, then support the creation of renewal tools that are grounded in your academic performance framework and responsive to your mission.
Monitoring and oversight policies serve as a roadmap for how authorizers track academic progress, financial health, and legal compliance—often through regular site visits, data reviews, and reporting cycles. SchoolWorks partners with authorizers to review and strengthen existing oversight policies or build new ones that are both practical and scalable.
Intervention and closure protocols provide a clear, structured framework for responding when schools fail to meet academic, financial, or operational expectations—outlining escalating actions that can lead to non-renewal or closure if necessary. SchoolWorks works with authorizers to build or refine intervention and closure protocols that are transparent, equitable, and grounded in performance data. We help ensure these tools are aligned with your accountability framework and clearly define thresholds for action.
Learn from real-world examples of authorizers who have successfully built and implemented frameworks, rubrics, and protocols that drive transparency and accountability. Dive into blog posts that share actionable insights on tool development and system design, and access our online professional development course to build internal capacity and reinforce best practices in authorizing.
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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