Community Conversations with NACSA
The only podcast that tells the stories of charter school authorizing and the people that strive to ensure students and families have access to quality public schools.
Podcasting since 2023 • 23 episodes
Community Conversations with NACSA
Latest Episodes
Inside NACSA's State Policy Recommendations
Dive deep into NACSA's recently released 2025 State Policy Recommendations with Veronica Brooks-Uy, NACSA's Senior Vice President of Strategy, Policy & ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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50:49
Leaders in Community: A Charter School Growth Fund Collab
This episode takes you inside NACSACon 2025, where NACSA President and CEO M. Karega Rausch, Ph.D. delivered powerful remarks about why strong foundational authorizing policies and practices have never been more important. It also featur...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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41:15
Academic Oversight in Action: Voices From the Field
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...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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32:10
Power of Partnership: Supporting Authorizers in the New School Application Process
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 a...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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20:25
Listening, Learning, Leading: NACSA's Strategy for Better Student Outcomes
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 episo...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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20:04