Building Charter School Quality is a project funded by the United States Department of Education Office of Innovation and Improvement. This National Activity project aims to improve student achievement by helping charter school operators and authorizers strengthen their performance management practices.   The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, the Colorado League of Charter Schools and CREDO, an education and policy research group at Stanford University are partners in the project. This site provides access to on-going updates of the BCSQ project as well as consensus documents, continuing discussion groups and position papers.

The three-year project has several program components:

The Quality Consortium will assemble charter school leaders from across the country for a national forum to review and endorse quality standards and measures for use by charter school authorizers, school operators and other involved parties such as legislators and funders.

The BCSQ Consensus Process is a deliberative standards setting body that works to establish performance measures for charter school effectiveness.

The Performance Management Institute provides classroom and web-based training to enhance the ability of charter school operators and authorizers, as well as others, to adopt and apply performance measurement practices to charter schooling and its oversight.

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