DC Charter School Alliance

Advocacy: since its launch in june 2020, DC Alliance has become the primary advocate for the district of columbia's public Charter schools. In areas of advocacy, DC Alliance has been and will continue to be a proponent for greater access to public facilities, equitable funding, and the maintenance of public Charter schools' autonomy that is guaranteed in the School reform act. In addition, DC Alliance amplifies the voice of DC's public Charter schools in working groups, task forces, and panels in reference to the DC public Charter School board, the office of the state superintendent, the deputy mayor for education, and the council of the district of columbia. In 2023, DC Alliance continued to direct its attention to growing the Charter advocacy base, most notably by expanding the team to include a senior manager of advocacy and policy and a political and community affairs director. These roles increase DC Alliance's capacity to engage with School leaders in its advocacy work and enlist community support for causes. DC Alliance looks forward to continuing and expanding this work to engage more parents, students, and board members of public Charter schools in advocacy.

School support: DC Alliance's advocacy is stronger when the Charter sector is stronger, and is therefore, its School support work, which focuses on improving School quality. DC Alliance provides a range of support to its members, which consist of one hundred percent of the 69 non-profit organizations that operate 136 public Charter schools in the district of columbia. DC Alliance brings School leaders together to learn from one another and share best practices; offers high-quality resources and programming aligned to its members' unique needs; connects them with partners; addresses immediate needs; and provides compliance and Charter application/renewal support. One hundred percent of School leader members engaged in a variety of forums during 2023. DC Alliance hosted six monthly virtual lea leader's meeting, ten leader-to-leader conversations on a variety of timely topics, and two in-person summits. DC Alliance also developed numerous resources, led workshops and trainings, and provided one-on-one and sector-wide problem solving support.