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NACSA’s 12 Essential Practices for Every Authorizer

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Culled from NACSA’s Principles and Standards guide, the 12 Essential Practices reflect the five domains of effective authorizing: agency commitment and capacity; application process and decision making; performance contracting; ongoing oversight and evaluation; and revocation and renewal decision making. The 12 practices are minimum expectations considered essential by the most successful authorizers nationally. Any authorizer can use these Essential Practices as a tool for self-evaluation and to spur improvements in their own work.

Related Resources:
Core Performance Framework and Guidance
Principles and Standards for Quality Charter School Authorizing
Replicating Quality: Policy Recommendations to Support the Replication and Growth of High-Performing Charter Schools and Networks

Source: National Association of Charter School Authorizers Process Steps: None

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