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The principal has authority and flexibility in making personnel decisions and has
been involved in the creation of a vision for her school from the ground up.
Future Considerations
Timothy Charter School is a very strong school that displays all 10 strategies for
doubling student performance. However, an area not discussed that would increase the
school’s impact event more is a facility that would accommodate all classrooms.
Currently, the school is spread between three different sites (some are several blocks
apart), which make collaboration, and building a school community more difficult. The
school has recently secured a site that would allow the entire school to be on one campus.
Finally, there are challenges to growing at a rapid pace, and the school should be very
cognizant of these challenges and potential pitfalls of adding staff rapidly and continue to
proactively address them before they come to fruition.
Object Description
| Title | Allocation of educational resources to improve student achievement: Case studies of four California charter schools |
| Author | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Author email | rpatrick@usc.edu; ramonakaypatrick@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2011-03-28 |
| Date submitted | 2011 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2011-05-04 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Picus, Lawrence O. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Guilbert C. Nelson, John L. |
| Abstract | Charter schools are growing at a rapid pace have significantly more flexibility in their allocation of resources in comparison to their traditional public school counterparts in California. Because of this, it is important to study how successful charter schools, with this increased flexibility, are utilizing their resources to achieve high results with their students in a time of fiscal constraint. There is a plethora of data and research on effective school practices to improve student achievement, but a dearth of research on the effective allocation of resources at charter schools. The purpose of this study is to analyze how four high performing charter schools, with high percentages of socioeconomically disadvantaged students in Los Angeles, California, are implementing school improvement strategies and utilizing resources at their school site to impact student achievement. The Evidenced-Based Model, (Odden & Picus, 2008) along with Odden and Archibald’s (2009) Ten Strategies for Doubling Student Performance were used as a lens in this study to compare resource allocation as well as school improvement strategies to best support student achievement at the schools. This study will describe each schools’ instructional vision and improvement strategy, how resources are utilized to implement their instructional improvement plan, how the current fiscal crisis is affecting their allocation of resources, and how actual resource patterns are aligned with the Evidence Based Model (Odden & Picus, 2008). |
| Keyword | charter schools; resource allocation; evidenced-based model |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 2000/2010 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3815 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Patrick, Ramona Kay |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Patrick-4438 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Patrick-4438.pdf |
Description
| Title | Page 184 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 176 The principal has authority and flexibility in making personnel decisions and has been involved in the creation of a vision for her school from the ground up. Future Considerations Timothy Charter School is a very strong school that displays all 10 strategies for doubling student performance. However, an area not discussed that would increase the school’s impact event more is a facility that would accommodate all classrooms. Currently, the school is spread between three different sites (some are several blocks apart), which make collaboration, and building a school community more difficult. The school has recently secured a site that would allow the entire school to be on one campus. Finally, there are challenges to growing at a rapid pace, and the school should be very cognizant of these challenges and potential pitfalls of adding staff rapidly and continue to proactively address them before they come to fruition. |
