BONUS 

Listen: Incomplete School Reform in Baltimore: An Interview with CRPE research director Betheny Gross.

 OTHER RESEARCH 

Five Keys Charter School in San Francisco is the nation’s only charter school embedded inside a city’s correctional system. Five Keys also has contracts to serve inmates in Los Angeles, Alameda, and Solano counties. These unique partnerships are featured in a report on how cities have become the drivers of government innovation.

 LOOKING AHEAD 

The 2017 National Charter Schools Conference is on the horizon and you can help shape the content. CRPE has submitted several proposals related to district-charter collaboration. Take a look and consider giving us the thumbs up! Voting ends December 21. (Once logged into the selector, search “Center on Reinventing Public Education.”) Vote now.

 NEWS & OPINION 

Can Superintendent Michelle King and nonprofit leader Myrna Castrejón save thousands of Los Angeles students from failing schools? – LA School Report

D.C.’s public charter school system turned 20 this year, authorizer eyes further collaboration with traditional public schools – Washington Post

Indianapolis moves closer to a unified enrollment system – Chalkbeat Indiana

Boston charter schools launch common application with eye on unified enrollment for all public schools – Boston Globe

Richard Whitmire: Denver’s important district-charter collaboration experiment is paying big dividends – The 74 Million

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