ABOUT Minnesota Charter School Resource Center (MCSRC)

The Minnesota Charter School Resource Center helps increase student acheivement and graduation rates for children throughout Minnesota. Founded upon work the Center for School Change has done over the past decade, the Minnesota Charter School Resource Center provides free, high quality technical assistance to people wishing to start and operate public charter schools.

The Minnesota Charter School Resource Center provides periodic meetings held at various times - all day, afterschool and everning - that offer help for people creating new schools. Participants learn about successful charter schools and talk with experts in charter school finance, governance, curriculum development, assessment, evaluation, legal issues and accountability. Additional conferences and workshops on vital issues will be held through continuing collaboration with the Minnesota Association of Charter Schools (MACS) - an organization that serves charter schools.

Center for School Change publications posted to the web include these topics: accountability, family involvement, school facilities. The Minnesota Charter School Resource Center can advise on sources of business, technical and accounting support, and provides tailored technical assistance to help developers refine their plans.

Charter school development resources have been made possible by generous support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Frey Foundation, the Johnston Education Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, the Minneapolis Foundation, the Saint Paul Foundation, the General Mills Foundation, Charter Friends National Network, Scheffer Lang and the TCF Foundation.