Presentation to the Chicago Board of Education, March 28th 2012.

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Portfolio
Creating opportunity for every student, in every community.
March 28th, 2012
Portfolio: Creating opportunity for every student, in every community

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Overview of Renewal Process
Portfolio is ensuring that all schools are held to high standards. We expect all schools to
prepare our students for college and career.
Student achievement Renewal Site Visit
as measured by the school’s
performance policy Application Report
Governance,
Compliance
Finance, and
reports
Facilities
Portfolio: Creating opportunity for every student, in every community

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Evaluation of Charter Networks
In order to conduct a thorough evaluation of the performance of a charter – CPS
evaluates the performance of the network as a whole as well as individual campuses.
Renewal Decisions
Campus Evaluation
Network Evaluation
Governance Overall
Compliance Student achievement recommendations
Compliance
and/or campus
Fiscal viability specific conditions
Overall academic Site visit or actions
performance including closure.
Portfolio: Creating opportunity for every student, in every community

4. 4
Holding All Schools Accountable
Options for Low-Performing Charter Schools
Shortened renewal for the charter – allows CPS to evaluate performance on a more
frequent basis and take further action if necessary.
Renewal with conditions – allows CPS to place additional targets into contract which
need to be met in order to be renewed.
Non-renewal – Allows CPS to non-renew or close a charter school. Can be applied to
a full network or individual campus.
Many charters elect to do their own internal turnaround in advance of their
contract renewal
Portfolio: Creating opportunity for every student, in every community

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Comparing and Contrasting Renewal Process
Previous Renewal Process Renewal Process Moving Forward
5- year renewal granted if performing Renewal with conditions that may lead to
better than neighborhood schools closure if a level 3 school
Renewals applied uniformly to all Renewals may have conditions depending
campuses in a network of schools on individual campus performance that
may lead to closure
Qualitative review provided for charter Will focus renewal process on high
schools in advance of renewal process standards for academic achievement by
students
Run separately from other school actions Align renewals to school actions calendar
Portfolio: Creating opportunity for every student, in every community

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Next Steps
• Continue to merge renewal process into CPS school
accountability timeline
• Move towards a single accountability system for all
schools including school rating levels and probation
status
• Potentially move all schools towards performance
contracts
Portfolio: Creating opportunity for every student, in every community