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P
LANNING AND
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Evaluation of the Public CharterSchools Program: Year OneEvaluation Report
2000
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SRI International—P03615
SRI International Evaluation Team Authors:
Lee AndersonNancy AdelmanKyo YamashiroMary Beth DonnellyKara Finnigan, Consultant to SRI International Jose BlackorbyLynyonne Cotton
With the assistance of:
Eric Hirsch, National Conference of State Legislatures
 This report was prepared for the U.S. Department of Education under ContractNumber EA 98-CO-0074. The views expressed herein are those of the contractor. Noofficial endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education is intended or should beinferred.
U.S. Department of Education
Richard W. Riley
Secretary
Office of the Under Secretary 
 Judith A. Winston
Under Secretary (A)
Planning and Evaluation Service
Alan L. Ginsburg
Director
Elementary and Secondary Education Division
Ricky T. Takai
Director
December 2000 This report is in the public domain. Authorization to reproduce it in whole or in part isgranted. While permission to reprint this publication is not necessary, the citationshould be: U.S. Department of Education, Office of the Under Secretary, Planning andEvaluation Service, Elementary and Secondary Education Division
, Evaluation of thePublic Charter Schools Program: Year One Evaluation Report
, Washington, D.C., 20202.
 To order copies of this report, write:
Planning and EvaluationElementary and Secondary Education DivisionU. S. Department of EducationWashington, DC 20202;via fax, dial (202) 401-1670;via phone, dial (202) 401-1958 This report is also available on the Department’s Web site at: www.uscharterschools.org and www.ed.gov/offices/OUS/eval/.
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors wish to thank several colleagues whose names do not appear in thisvolume:To Bonnee Groover, whose grasp of the project, its deadlines, and a growing list ofsoftware, kept the study running smoothly.To Kathryn Valdes, whose responsive, competent, and creative computer programmingmade the survey data make sense.To Klaus Krause, whose careful editing made this report make sense.To Meredith Miller, the project officer for this study, a true partner in each stage of theevaluation.To the members of the study’s Technical Work Group: Jose Afonso, Josephine Baker,Marcella Dianda, James Goenner, Margaret Goertz, Eric Hirsch, Ginger Hovenic, KarenSeashore Louis, Bruno Manno, Wayne Martin, and Eric Rofes.And a special thanks to the state charter school coordinators and charter schoolauthorizers who were interviewed and the members of the charter school communitywho participated in focus groups.
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