WHY CHARTER VOICE?

CharterVoice supports a “big tent.”
CharterVoice advocates on behalf of a diverse range of charter schools and the students they serve and does not support advocacy efforts that seek to limit the charter school movement to only specific types of charter schools.

CharterVoice is grassroots.
CharterVoice is quickly becoming one of the premier charter school advocacy organizations in the state. We already represent thousands of California charter school students, parents, teachers, administrators, developers, authorizers, and other leading charter school constituents across the state. CharterVoice is truly a grassroots-driven organization – created by charter school constituents whose members help develop and drive the policy agenda.

CharterVoice supports multiple measures of accountability.
CharterVoice believes school quality should be assessed through multiple measures (not just test scores/the API).

CharterVoice is fiscally and politically independent.
CharterVoice believes it is important to the integrity and sustainability of our organization to draw our funding from a broad range of sources and never become too dependent on any single funding source. Similarly, we work with a range of policy partners to implement our members’ legislative agenda and do not bend to the will of any political group that seeks to impede our goal of serving California’s diverse charter school students.

CharterVoice partners with experts.
CharterVoice works in close collaboration with the Charter Schools Development Center (CSDC), California’s most expert and experienced charter school technical assistance organization, in order to provide high quality technical training and support so charter leaders can more effectively run their schools