1. Accountability and Strategic Planning
2. Communications
3. Comprehensive School Designs
4. Facilities Acquisition and Financing
5. Fundraising
6. Governance
7. Leadership
8. Legal Resources
9. National Education and Nonprofit Resources
10. New School Start Up
11. Personnel
12. Reports and Guides
13. Special Education
14. State Education and Nonprofit Resources
15. Teacher Recruitment
16. Teacher Resources

• A Road to Results

• ASCD Advocacy Guide
• Charter Schools: Creating and Sustaining Family Friendly Schools
• Charter Starters Leadership Training: Community Relations
• Communicating with Policy Makers
• Developing Community Capacity
• Have I got A Story For You - A Communications Training Guide
• National Charter School Clearinghouse Press Resources
• Promoting Interest and Participation in Initiatives

• Add ConteCatalog of School Reform Models
• If the Shoe Fits
• Making Matches that Make Sense
• Working with Education Management Organizations

• 2007 Charter School Facility Finance Landscape
• Assessing the Performance of Charter Schools
• Building a Foundation for Success: How Authorizers Can Help Schools with the Facilities Challenge
• Charter Schools 101: What Potential Lenders Should Know About the Industry
• Choosing an Education Contractor: A Guide to Assessing Financial and Organizational Capacity
• Don't Forget the Schools:Fiscal, Budget and Policy Considerations for Tax Reforms
• Educational Facilities within the context of a Changing 21st Century
• Facilities Financing: New Models for Districts that are Creating Schools New
• Facility Finance Landscape: A National Mapping of Private Nonprofit Providers and Public Initiatives
• Facing the Future: Financing Productive Schools
• Finance Gap: Charter Schools and their Facilities
• Let's Do the Numbers: Seven Practices for Sound Fiscal Management
• Moody's Methodology and Median Report on Charter Schools
• National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
• Out of the Box: An Idea Book on Facilities Financing
• Public Finance Criteria: Charter Schools
• School Planning and Management
• The Answer Key: How to Plan, Develop and Finance Your Charter School Facility
• Underwriting Loans to Charter Schools

• Department of Education Forecast of Funding
• eSchool News School Funding Center
• Fundraising Guidebook
• Grantionary
• GrantsAlert
• Information on Grants for School Health Programs & Services
• New York City Charter School's Fundraising Guidebook
• Philanthropy News Digest
• School Grants
• Show Me the Money: Tips & Resources for Successful Grant Writing

• Board Development
• BoardSource, formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards
• Charter Schools' Governance and Board Development Guidebook
• Charter Starters Leadership Training: Assessment and Accountability
• Charter Starters Leadership Training: Governance and Management
• Charter Starters Leadership Training: Regulatory Issues
• Creating an Effective Charter School Governing Board Guidebook
• Creating and Sustaining High Quality Charter School Governing Boards
• Maximizing Effectiveness: Focusing the Microscope on Charter School Governing Boards
• New Jersey School Boards Association
• Nonprofit Governance
• The Five Dysfunctions of Charter School Boards
• Why Your Board Exists: A First Step Towards Board Accountability

• A Profile of the Leadership Needs of Charter School Founders
• Community & Family Engagement: Principals Share What Works
• Education Leadership Policy Toolkit
• Making Sense of Leading Schools: A Study of the School Principalship
• Mobilizing and Motivating Your Staff To Get Results
• Professional Development and the Seven C’s of Successful

Michie's Legal Resources

• American Association of School Administrators
• Building Choice
• Center for Education Reform
• Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
• Charter School Basics
• Charter School Growth Fund
• George Lucas Educational Foundation
• National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
• National Center for Education Statistics
• National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
• National Charter School Clearinghouse's Service Directory
• National Charter Schools Institute
• National Resource Center on Charter School Finance and Governance (NRC)
• School Tree
• Successful Charter Schools
• Thomas B. Fordham Foundation
• U.S. Department of Education
• US Charter Schools

• Charter School Law
• Charter Starters Leadership Training: Start Up Logistics
• Creating New Schools: The Strategic Management of Charter Schools
• Guidebook to Success
• Holding Charter School Authorizers Accountable
• How Community-Based Organizations Can Start Charter Schools
• Launching and Leading New Small Schools
• New Jersey Administrative Code, Charter Schools
• New Jersey Administrative Code, Student Transportation
• Planning Guide for Launching a New School
• So You Want to Start a Charter School? Strategic Advice for Applicants
• The New Schools Handbook

• Human Resources Management
• Human Resources: Attracting Employees with Meaningful Benefits
• Personnel Policies and Practices: Understanding Employment Law
• Personnel Policy in Charter Schools
• Shaping Positive Cultures in Charter Schools
• USCS Start-Up Brief: Human Resources - Staffing for Success

• A Closer Look at Charter Schools Using Hierarchical Linear Modeling
• A Commitment to Quality: National Charter School Policy Forum Report
• A Donar's Guide to School Choice
• Charter School Authorizing: Are States Making the Grade?
• Charter School Funding:Inequity's Next Frontier
• Charter Schools Benefit Community Economic Development
• Charter Schools Closing the Achievement Gap
• Closing Low-performing Schools and Reopening Them as Charter Schools: The Role of the State
• Doing School Choice Right
• Don't Forget the Schools: Legal Considerations for Tax Reform
• Education Finance: More Money or Different Spending Choices?
• Empowering Teachers and Parents with Charter Schools Can Bring New Opportunities to Urban Communitie
• Growing Pains: Scaling Up the Nation's Best Charter Schools
• Involving Teachers in Charter School Governance
• Jump-starting the Charter School Movement, A Guide for Donors
• Key Issues in Studying Charter Schools and Achievement: A Review and Suggestions for National Guidel
• Leveling the Playing Field: What Charter School Leaders Need to Know about Union Organizing
• Multiple Choice: Charter School Performance in 16 States
• One-third of a Nation: America's Escalating High School Dropout Crisis
• Partnerships Between Charter Schools and Other Organizations
• Plan to Type? Mapping the Charter School Landscape
• Renewing the Compact: A Statement by the Task Force on Charter School Quality and Accountability
• School and Business Partnerships:Seven Strategies for Success
• Solving the Charter School Funding Gap: The Seven Major Causes and What to do About Them
• Studying Charter School Achievements: What Do We Know?
• Texas Round Up: Chartering in the Lone Star State
• The Answer Key: How to Plan, Develop and Finance Your Charter School Facility
• The Authorizer and Charter School Closures: Exercising Adaptive Leadership to Protect the Public Int
• The Charter School Experience
• The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Achievement
• The Renaissance of Urban Education: Charter Schools in Americas Cities
• To Enhance Education's Monitoring and Research, More Charter School-Level Data Are Needed (GAO Repor
• Trends in Charter School Authorizing
• Who's the Boss? An Examination of the Characteristics, Experience, and Training of CS Principals

• Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
• Education Week and Teacher Magazine
• Education World
• Educause
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
• Horizon
• Multicultural Review
• NASA's Educational Program
• National Middle School Association
• National Science Foundation: Where Discoveries Begin
• Newsweek Education Program
• Study Guide Zone
• Tapped In: A Community of Education Professionals
• Teacher Leaders Network
• Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative-FREE Professional Development
• Teaching Portfolios
• The Family Education Website