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Charter Schools

National Study of Charter Schools Report Available

The fourth-year report on The National Study of Charter Schools, produced by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and improvement has been released. To view this report, click on the link: http://www.ed.gov/pubs/charter4thyear/.

New Grant Competition

A new grant competition has just been announced by the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program.  The CSP grant competition for the Replication and Expansion of High-Quality Charter Schools will provide $50,000,000 to assist non-profit charter management organizations, and other entities that are not for-profit entities, in replicating or expanding high-quality charter schools with demonstrated records of success.  Applicants must have experience operating more than one high-quality charter school.

Applications are due by July 7, 2010, and must be submitted through the Department’s e-Application system, at http://e-grants.ed.gov.  A pre-application meeting will be held on June 8, 2010, in Washington, DC.  For those interested in attending, either in person or by phone, please RSVP to charterschools@ed.gov.  More information is available at http://www2.ed.gov/programs/charter/applicant.html.

Charter Schools

If you have general questions, feel free to contact the local school board in your area or the Illinois Network of Charter Schools. Their website can be found at http://www.incschools.org, e-mail at info@incschools.org, call at 312-235-0798, or fax at 312-235-0679. You may also contact staff at the Illinois State Board of Education as follows:

Rich Loman
Jo Price
217/782-2948 Phone
217/524-8750 Fax