Charter school development

The right resources for wherever you are in the journey.

A curated professional library for the people building and governing charter schools. Tell us who you are and where your organization stands today, and we'll point you to what's worth reading now — not everything at once.

Three ways in

The library is organized around three questions. Start with whichever one you can answer most easily.

Where you are

By development stage

From first exploring the idea through sustaining an established school.

Explore Authorize Open Operate Sustain
Choose your stage

How it works

The library does the narrowing so you don't have to read everything to find the few things that matter now.

Tell us who you are

A prospective board member sees different resources than an authorizer or a tribal government partner.

Tell us where you are

Exploring the idea, building an application, opening, or improving an existing school — each stage surfaces its own set.

Get a short, relevant list

A manageable set of vetted resources, each with a plain-language summary of why it matters and what to take from it.

Built for charter school teams

This library is curated for the organizations Education Foundations works with — organized so the right resources surface for who you are and where your project stands.