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What We’re Learning – Early Findings from the Charter School Research Collaborative

Report

July 2026

The MIT Charter School Research Collaborative promotes rigorous, high-quality, and actionable research on the charter school sector. We have distributed $3.8 million in funding to 30 projects and launched seven in-house MIT Blueprint Labs research projects across more than 20 geographies. This memo contextualizes and summarizes early findings from selected work supported by the Collaborative.