The Strategic Management of Charter Schools

There are now more than five thousand charter schools in the United States attended by nearly two million students. Yet the nature and quality of these institutions vary greatly.The Strategic Management of Charter Schools addresses the challenges facing such schools by mapping out, in straightforward and highly pragmatic terms, a management framework for them. Organized around three crucial challenges to charter school leader managing mission, internal operations, and the larger stakeholder environment it provides charter school leaders with indispensable tools for achieving educational and organizational success. In its elucidation of these managerial challenges, and in its equally helpful and detailed examinations of particular schools,the book offers a clear, credible approach to the efficient and sustainable management of what are still young and experimental educational institutions.