June 10, 2008

National Study on Differential Response in Child Welfare

This report contains the performance dashboards for NewSchools Venture Fund titled Key Strategies From NewSchools' Portfolio Ventures for June 2008. This report outlines the results from a case study that was prepared by NewSchools Venture Fund to document ?promising practices? in use by their portfolio venture, so that it could be shared with others in the portfolio. The case study was performed by conducting background research on Aspire Public Schools, Leadership Public Schools, and Uncommon Schools, Inc. and interviewing management teams at each organization. The case study yielded resulted in a variety of practices and approaches that nonprofit charter management organizations have put in place to implement performance dashboards across their schools.