Building Charter School Quality is a project funded by the United Stated Department of Education's Charter School Program in the Office of Innovation and Improvement. By the end of the three-year grant, the project will achieve improved student achievement by helping charter school operators and authorizers strengthen their performance management practices. The project will identify and develop best practices in the measurement of student and school performance, the management of performance data, and the use of performance measures for school improvement and authorizers' oversight duties. There is a strong need for the charter school movement nationwide to achieve greater clarity and focus on the measures by which charter school success is assessed. The project will help align expectations among operators, authorizers, funders, and lenders around how a quality charter school performs and how different stakeholders can work together to hold schools accountable for good or bad performance.