Center on Reinventing Public Education

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Center on Reinventing Public Education
Basic facts
Location:	Seattle, Washington
Top official:	Robin Lake
Website:	Official website

The Center on Reinventing Public Education is an education reform organization based in Seattle, Washington, and led by Robin Lake. The organization is affiliated with the University of Washington-Bothell.

Mission

The organization's mission statement is as follows:

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Our mission is to find the most innovative, pragmatic, equitable, and successful ways to address the complex challenges in public education. Through our research and policy analysis, we offer evidence-based solutions that help educators and administrators do their best work so that every child can have access to an excellent education. We envision a public education system that attracts and grows talented teachers and leaders; where all families have great neighborhood and city-wide public school options to meet their children’s unique needs; where public funds flow equitably to students; where all schools regularly innovate and problem-solve; and where those overseeing schools ensure that every child has access to excellent teachers and excellent schools.

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Work

The Center on Reinventing Public Education mostly engages in research into best practices and policy reforms for public schools throughout the country. They focus on three major areas: transforming the governance of public schools; proposing alternative models for public schools (including online and charter schools); and realigning the use of district school funds.

The group's work has been critical of standardized testing, as both a method for assessing student learning and evaluating teacher performance. A 2015 piece co-authored by CRPE's Paul Hill and Stanford University's Linda Darling-Hammond addressed the issue of accountability and argued: "States need to accept responsibility for action to identify children at risk and improve their options. But the Congress and the U.S. Department of Education shouldn’t mandate what those actions are or require specific uses of funds. Neither should they set mandates for school management or personnel evaluation that constrain how school leaders can do their work."

CRPE also helps to develop and assess charter schools as options for public education. In a 2015 research report, CRPE partnered with Mathematica Policy Research and Stanford University’s CREDO (Center for Research on Education Outcomes) to study the effectiveness of online charter schools as compared to schools where students attended classes in a school building. According to the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, the report found: "Students who attend online charter schools – and receive no instruction from an in-person teacher – tend to do much worse than their peers in bricks-and-mortar schools."

Leadership

The website for the Center on Reinventing Public Education lists the following individuals as experts who "testify as expert witnesses before Congress and state legislatures, serve as advisors to local and national organizations, present at national meetings and conferences and frequently provide interviews and written commentary on complex and emerging issues."

• Robin Lake, Director
• Christine Campbell, Senior research analyst, Policy director
• Michael DeArmond, Senior research analyst
• Patrick Denice, Research analyst
• Sean Gill, Research analyst
• Betheny Gross, Senior research analyst, Research director
• Jose Hernandez, Research analyst
• Paul Hill, Founder, CRPE and Research professor, UWB
• Ashley Jochim, Research analyst
• Tricia Maas, Research analyst
• Colleen McCann, Research analyst
• Shannon Murtagh, Research analyst
• Jordan Posamentier, Deputy policy director
• Sarah Yatsko, Senior research analyst

Finances

The website for the Center on Reinventing Public Education lists the following organizations as current financial supporters of the group's activity:

• The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Laura and John Arnold Foundation
• Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
• Nellie Mae Education Foundation
• US Department of Education
• Walton Family Foundation
• Anonymous

The group also lists previous foundations and organizations who have supported their mission:

• A+ Commission
• Achelis & Bodman Foundations
• Alcoa (grant to Brookings)
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Anonymous
• The Atlantic Philanthropies
• The Ball Foundation
• The Boeing Company
• The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
• The Broad Foundations
• The Brookings Institution
• The Business Roundtable
• The Daniels Fund
• The Doris & Donald Fisher Fund
• Education Commission of the States
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
• Exxon Education Foundation
• Fund for Educational Excellence
• The George Gund Foundation
• The Heinz Endowments
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• The Joyce Foundation
• Lumina Foundation for Education
• Mann-Paller Foundation
• NACSA (National Association of Charter School Authorizers)
• National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
• National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
• Partnership for Learning
• The Pew Charitable Trusts
• The Piton Foundation
• RAND
• Rodel Charitable Foundation
• The Seattle Foundation
• Smith Richardson Foundation
• The Spencer Foundation
• Stupski Family Foundation
• Wallace-Reader's Digest Funds

Recent news

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See also

• Charter schools
• Linda Darling-Hammond
• Bellwether Education Partners

External links

• Center on Reinventing Public Education Website
• Center on Reinventing Public Education on Facebook
• Center on Reinventing Public Education on Twitter