Boot Camps for Charter Boards

Autor/in	Kronholz, June
Titel	Boot Camps for Charter Boards
Quelle	In: Education Next, 15 (2015) 3, S.40-46 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	Charter Schools; Governing Boards; School Responsibility; Legal Responsibility; Failure; Governance; Committees; Budgets; Workshops; School Law; Coaching (Performance); Occupational Mobility; Leadership Training; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charter school; Charter-Schule; Governing body; Governing bodies; Leitungsgremium; Strafmündigkeit; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Committee; Ausschuss; Finanzhaushalt; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Law concerning schools; Schulrecht; Berufliche Mobilität; Führungslehre
Abstract	This article addresses the question of who owns the responsibility when a charter school gets into trouble--when its students aren't learning, or it misses its enrollment targets, or money runs short, or it closes. Upon presenting this question to a director of a charter school, a board member, and a Massachusetts-based education consultant and entrepreneur, author June Kronholz writes that there appears to be a consensus of opinions that the failure of a charter is ultimately the failure of the board. Which is why an organization called Charter Board Partners (CBP) gathered a World Bank strategist, a couple of advertising executives, a behavioral psychologist, a retired English teacher, a former Exxon executive, and perhaps two dozen other professionals for what it called a governance boot camp. CBP's boot camp began simply enough with a lecture on what, exactly, a charter school is. The discussion quickly moved to governance nuts and bolts: committee organization, budget oversight, school-leader evaluations, and, by afternoon, a mock charter-school board meeting. Since its 2010 launch, Charter Board Partners has recruited, trained, and placed 100 people like these onto D.C. charter-school boards. At the end of this boot camp, another 67 candidates were ready to join boards that ask for them. About two dozen boards--not quite half of the charter-school boards in D.C.--already contract with CBP, paying up to $15,000 a year for CBP's matchmaking services, governance workshops, personal coach, and help with such problems as how to "preplan" a school leader's succession, or how to move board paperwork online. In addition to recruiting and coaching boards, CBP provides its subscribers with professional development through a library of online training tools. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01