Alliance Hopes to Serve As Voice for Charter Schools

By Caroline Hendrie

Organizers are putting the finishing touches on their plans to start a new national association of state-level charter school groups in early 2003.

Based in Washington, the new membership organization will aim to become the leading national voice of the growing charter school sector.

Known as the National Charter School Alliance, the nonprofit group is expected to replace and expand on the work of the Charter Friends National Network, which has been run for the past six years as a project of the nonprofit Center for Policy Studies...