A central location for technical assistance resources on innovation and improvement (including supplemental educational services and school choice) can be found at the Center on Innovation and Improvement (which is one of the 5 Content Comprehensive Centers). The center identifies innovations engendered by parental options, including charter schools, parental choice of schools, magnet schools, schools within a school, and supplemental educational services
Additional Resources
Buildingchoice.org
Identifies districts across the country that have been identified as having promising practices related to choice.
Center for Data Driven Reform in Education (CDDRE)
Provides districts with leadership training, data interpretation training, and information on well-evaluated programs for identified problems, and information on scientifically-based interventions drawn from existing comprehensive reform models and from programs with evidence of effectiveness as determined by the What Works Clearinghouse
Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement (CCSRI)
Assists schools and school districts that are contemplating or engaged in comprehensive school reform and improvement. The CCSRI website houses a variety of tools, guides, and links relating to school improvement
Comprehensive School Reform Database
Program offered by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL) to help schools and districts select the appropriate Comprehensive School Reform program
National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
provides assistance to state charter school associations and resource centers, develops and advocates for improved public policies, and serves as the united voice for this large and diverse movement
National Association of Charter School Authorizers
A nonprofit membership association of educational agencies across the country that authorize and oversee charter public schools
National Research and Development Center on School Choice, Competition, and Achievement
Investigates the individual and systemic effects of school choice and competition
U.S. Charter Schools
Provides providing information and promising practices about and for charter schools