SchoolWorks® provides capacity-adding support to charter school authorizers to ease the burden of the complex charter application/petition evaluation process. Depending upon your office’s capacity and need, SchoolWorks can provide third-party management of the entire application evaluation process, provide supplemental qualified reviewers to enhance your current team, or help your organization refine and improve its current process to maximize transparency and efficiency.
SchoolWorks can lead the full application evaluation process—from recruiting and training reviewers to managing timelines, facilitating norming, coordinating scoring and feedback, and compiling results. Our team ensures strict adherence to your established process, promoting fairness, transparency, and consistency throughout every step. This approach helps safeguard the integrity of the process and mitigates concerns of bias or political preference, ensuring that application reviews are conducted objectively and consistently in alignment with established criteria.
For authorizers who need to strengthen capacity during evaluation cycles, SchoolWorks provides qualified reviewers trained in your tools and standards. These reviewers integrate seamlessly into your existing team, participating in calibration sessions, conducting evaluations, and providing evidence-based scoring and feedback. This approach boosts your team’s capacity during peak periods while maintaining the quality and integrity of the review process.
Looking to improve your current process? SchoolWorks can collaborate with your team to assess your current tools, identify gaps, and co-develop or refine rubrics, scoring guides, decision criteria, and feedback templates. Our team will ensure that all tools align with your mission, vision, and national best practices to support transparent and consistent decision-making.
Explore how third-party application evaluation services have strengthened authorizing practices through our case studies, blog posts, and professional development opportunities. Learn from state and district authorizers who have partnered with SchoolWorks to manage or enhance their application review processes with objectivity and consistency. Read expert guidance on best practices for evaluating charter applications, and access our online professional development course to build the skills and knowledge needed to support fair, transparent, and high-quality decision-making.
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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