Charter School Governance
The Essential Guide Resources
Below you’ll find a collection of high-quality resources to support your journey as a charter school board member.
Our series of videos – Charter School Governance: The Essential Guide – is designed to provide a high-level overview, supported by specific examples from actual schools, of the responsibilities, opportunities and obligations of serving as a public charter school board member.
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Resources for Building Your Board
- Cornell-Feist. Board Structure: A Guide to Bylaws, Officers, Committees, Responsibilities and More for Exceptional Charter Schools
- Carver, John and Caroline Oliver. Corporate Boards That Create Value: Governing Company Performance from the Boardroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.
- Carver, John and Miriam. Reinventing Your Board: a Step-by-Step Guide to Implementing Policy Governance.(Rev. ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006.
- Carver, Miriam and Bill Charney. The Board Member’s Playbook: Using Policy Governance to Solve Problems, Make Decisions, and Build a Stronger Board. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.
- Bain, Neville and Roger Barker. The Effective Board: Building Individual and Board Success. London: The Institute of Directors, 2010.
- Carpenter, Brian. The Effective Charter School Board: Leaving a Legacy That Matters. Somewhat Useful Productions, LLC, 2018.
- Chait, Richard, William Ryan, and Barbara Taylor. Governance as Leadership: Reframing the Work of Nonprofit Boards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
- Oliver, Caroline, et al., eds. Getting Started with Policy Governance: Bringing Purpose, Integrity and Efficiency to Your Board.
- Caroline Oliver, Mike Conduff, et.al. The Policy Governance Fieldbook: Practical Lessons, Tips, and Tools from the Experiences of Real-World Boards. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1999.
- Edunomics Lab is a Georgetown University research center exploring and modeling complex education finance decisions to inform education policy and practice
- Charter School Facility Refinancing Guide & Toolkit