• Leveraging authorizer experience and expertise to help potential applicants understand what it takes to move from dreaming about creating an excellent school, to mastering the myriad details necessary, to successfully apply for and operate a school that serves students well the first day it opens its doors.  
• Incorporating bold educational goals, like a 90% college enrollment rate, into a school’s charter contract and ensures the school’s mission, curriculum, and assessments align with and support that goal.   
• Applying a computer-based testing system that measures the academic growth of individual students, and shows from elementary through high school if that student is academically prepared for college, work, and life.  
• Instantaneously providing feedback about a student’s achievements to teachers, principals, and parents so they can improve teaching and learning, evaluate performance, and continuously improve.   
   

Chartering 58 public schools that serve more than 30,000 students, CMU is the nation’s largest university authorizer and is known for its leadership and innovation within the charter sector. Information on the need for, and the foundation of, “next generation” authorizing can be found at www.thecenterforcharters.org/roundtable

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