These Internet sources may have information relating to charter schools. While we do not necessarily endorse the material, findings, or methodology of any page listed here, we have found some of the content on these sites useful at WCSS. Please inform us of dead links at the e-mail address below. This page is divided according these broad topics:
- Government agencies;
- Academic and research groups;
- Educational data sources;
- Advocacy and associational groups; and
- State education department charter sites.
Government agencies
- City of Milwaukee Educational Resources
- Department of Public Instruction (DPI) Charter Schools Site
- DPI Division for School Finance and Management Services
- DPI Office of Educational Accountability
- Madison Metropolitan School District
- Milwaukee Public Schools
Federal
- U. S. Department of Education
- U. S. Charter Schools
- Governance and Finance Institute Charter Schools Study
- Office of Educational Research and Improvement
- Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Law resources
NOTE: We make no claim about the quality or veracity of the legal information contained in the following pages.
- Wisconsin Laws Governing Public Schools (118.40 for Charter Schools)
- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
- No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 charter school provisions
- Applying Federal Civil Rights Laws to Public Charter Schools
- Charter School Law
Wisconsin
Academic and other research organizations
- Brookings Institution, Brown Center on Education Policy
- Empowering People for Informed Choices in Education (UWM)
- Institute for the Transformation of Learning
- NCREL Charter Schools Internet Resources Page
- Public Policy Forum
- UW-Milwaukee Center for Charter Schools
Sources of educational data
- DPI School Performance Reports
- DPI Statistical Information Center
- DPI WINSS Data
- National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
- NCES Common Core of Data
- Schools and Staffing Survey
Associational and advocacy groups
- Black Alliance for Educational Options
- Center for Education Reform
- Charter Friends National Network
- National Association of Charter School Authorizers
- National Charter School Clearinghouse
- National Institute for Charter Schools
- School Choice Info
- Wisconsin Charter Schools Association
State education department charter pages
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- District of Columbia
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Kansas
- Louisiana
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
- Wyoming