The MIT News article discusses the launch of the Charter School Research Collaborative by Blueprint Labs. This initiative aims to bring together various stakeholders in the charter school sector, including practitioners, policymakers, researchers, and funders, to create more actionable, rigorous, and policy-relevant research on charter schools. The collaborative focuses on filling knowledge gaps about charter schools’ long-term effects and systemic impacts, with a recent event kicking off the collaboration and setting a research agenda on seven key topics related to charter school performance and impact.