At its core, academic oversight is about answering a single, powerful question: Are schools academically successful? NACSA's Academic Framework Guidance helps authorizers answer this question by capturing the impact a school has—or doesn’t have—on its primary stakeholders: students.

David Greenberg, NACSA’s Vice President of Authorizer Learning and Development, sits down with Jermaine Curtis, Charter School Coordinator, and Steve Osbourne, Student Opportunity Officer, at the Rhode Island Department of Education, and Ryan Marks, Chief of Authorizing and Accountability at the Colorado Charter School Institute, to dig into academic frameworks and accountability.

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Jay Whalen, NACSA’s Director of Authorizer and School Quality, and Dr. Windy Stephenson, Founding Executive Director at the Voorhees University Charter Institute of Learning, describe how NACSA supported Voorhees—which became a charter school authorizer in 2024—in developing and implementing its first new school application cycle.

Explore NACSA's New School Application Guidance.

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Over the past year, we’ve been listening—to authorizers, educators, families—and asking a critical question: What does accountability look like in today’s context? The answers are reshaping how we think about our work.

In this episode, NACSA leaders David Greenberg and Veronica Brooks-Uy dive deep into the challenges authorizers face right now, and share NACSA’s renewed vision and strategy for equipping them with the knowledge, tools, and support to ensure every child has access to a high-quality school.

Register to join us in Houston, TX, October 20-23 for NACSACon 2025.

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