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Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011ALLIANCEFOR NEW ORLEANSWhitney Bross & Douglas N. Harrisĩhlane UniversityEducationResearchAllianceNOLA.orgHow (and How Well) Do Charter Authorizes Cho

ose Schools? Evidence from the Recovery School District in New OrleansWhitney Bross1 2 Douglas N. Han is'November 10. 2016Abstract: The decisions made alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

by charter authorizes about which charter schools are allowed into the market are an under-studied piece of the charter reform process. The post-Katr

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ina school reforms in New Orleans provide an empirical setting to estimate the applicant characteristics most favored by charter authorizes. and wheth

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011strict (RSD) were strongly predicted by the subjective ratings of the outside charter application evaluator, and weakly predicted by other individual

application characteristics we derived from the applications including naming a specific principal, already operating an open school, and the experien alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

ce of board members. Later, when the initial contracts ended and renewal decisions were made, authorizes had more information as they could directly o

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bserve performance. Ill this case, the state renewed schools that had high test levels and or value-added. but did not apparently pay attention to fam

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011e years of renewal granted, of our 65 estimates (5 long-term outcomes each with 13 predictors), only nine are statistically significant and not one IS

significant for more than one long-term outcome These results highlight the challenges of contracting out schools in a new and thin market where pros alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

pective contractors have a limited track record, and how performance-based contracting can lead to improved measureable outcomes over time when the go

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vernment makes decisions based on those same outcomes.Acknowledgements: This study was conducted at the Education Research Alliance fol New Orleans, b

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011lliam T. Grant Foundation, the Spencer Foundation and. at Tulane, the Department of Economics. Murphy Institute and School of Libeial Arts. For then u

seful comments, we thank James Alm. Alan Baneca. Jane Lincove. Patlick Wolf. Gieg Richmond, Robin Lake, and Kathy Padian. and reviewers at the Interna alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

tional Conference on School Choice and Reform. For other important conti ibutions we thank Natalie Melville. Sarah Woodward. Emma Vitto. and Fred Chas

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m.1Whitney Ruble, wruble@hilane.edu. Senior Fiscal Analyst. Indiana Legislative Services Agency. Research Associate. Education Research Alliance for N

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011search Alliance for New Orleans. 302 Tilton Hall. Department of Economics. Tulane University, New Orleans. LA 70118.1 IntroductionContracting lias bec

ome a popular way to improve the efficiency and quality of public sector sen-ices, offering the potential to avoid public sector bureaucracy that come alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

s when governments directly prox ide services and allowing for competition among potential providers based on performance metrics outlined and monitor

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ed by government agencies (Alcliiaii and Dcmsctz, 1972; Dombcrgcr and Jensen. 1997; Mcgginson and Netter. 2001). On the other hand, these benefits are

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011erger and Jensen, 1997). Han and Holmstrom (1987) recently shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work showing the challenges involved when rhe g

overnment is the contractor.Ill education, contracting has become a popular option ill the form of charter schools. With policies in place in 43 state alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

s, non-profit and for-profit charter operators apply to government agencies or their designees, called authorizes, who then choose from among applican

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ts, oversee performance, and make decisions about contract renewals. Local boards, slate boards, mayor's offices, and or higher education institutions

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011grown, from 0.3 million in 1999-2000 to 2.8 million ill 2012-2013 (NCES. 2013). little is known about authorizes. Studies have found small differences

in student achievement by authorize! type, but have not considered wliat authorizes are looking for or whether they succeed in reaching die objective alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

s they have for their schools (Carlson, Lavery, and Witte, 2012; Zimmer,7Attridge, and Obeuhauf. 2014), Bulklev (1999) concluded from tluee case studi

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es of authorizes that having a sponsor that acts like a traditional school district (i.e., accountability IS focused on control and inputs rather than

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011thorize! laws in all states and perceived best practices for authorizing (Christie. Millard. Thomsen, and Wixom. 2014; McShane. Hatfield, and English.

2015; NACSA. 2014). though there IS little evidence on which to judge which authorize! practices are best. Studies of authorize! renewal decisions ha alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

ve found that 93 percent of schools were renewed, but the evidence is mixed on whether these decisions are related to student outcomes.' But there is

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essentially no evidence on how authorize!* decisions are made, what objectives they are trying to achieve, or whether the factors guiding then decisio

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011ate Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE). The state authorized 82 schools from 2003 until 2013 (NACSA. 2013). We study whether each char

ter is approved and. among those approved and opened, whether and for how long the contract was renewed. Combined with data on the characteristics of alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

the applications, we can examine the factors that predict approval and renewal and therefore understand authorize! objectives and their ability to mee

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t these objectives’ Older studies on this have suggested that renewal IS not based on performance (SRI International. 2000: Finn et al.. 2000). One ne

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011, and only larger authorizes who are responsible foi only about half of charter schools overall (National Association of Charter School Authorizes. 20

10). Also, even if authonzer decisions include performance as a factor, the survey does not mean that the lowest performers are being closed (e.g.. th alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

ey might only consider closing those schools with extremely low achievement, though still leave most of those schools open).3We find that the only ind

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ividual application variables that consistently predict approval are the ratings assigned to the application by the third party authorize!. the Nation

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011ducation plans. Schools are significantly more likely to be approved if they have higher NACSA ratings on those tliree dimensions. Some combinations o

f measures, created from a factor analysis, are collectively related to approval though the factors, and mostly represent naming a principal, operatin alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

g an open school at the time of applying, and having board members with finance and legal experience.After opening, schools were more likely to be ren

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ewed if they had a higher School Performance Score (a state-determined school accountability measure based on test scoie levels), higher school value-

Technical ReportHOW (AND HOW WELL) DO CHARTER AUTHORIZERS CHOOSE SCHOOLS? EVIDENCE FROM THE RECOVERY SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANSEDUCATIONRESEARCH A

alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011ollment sometimes does). The individual application variables (other than NACSA) only weakly predict the filtiue success of applicants, however. Of ou

r 65 estimates (5 long-term outcomes each with 13 predictors), only nine aie statistically significant, not one is significant for more than one long- alzheimers-dementia-west-virginia-state-plan-2011

term outcome, and an F-test does not reject the null hypothesis that variables predict renewal. The composite application variables from a factor anal

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ysis also fail to predict renewalThe following section outlines the education system 111 Louisiana and New-Orleans. Then we explain the specific proce

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