About Us

Mission

To collaboratively create and advocate for the development, operation, sponsorship, and accountability of quality public charter schools throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Values

• Education – NWCEO works to expand the quality and quantity of public educational options that lead to student academic and personal success. 
• Quality – We provide targeted technical assistance to all key stakeholder groups (i.e., school developers, schools, sponsors, and partners) to ensure educational and operational quality in individual schools and the public school system.
• Accountability – We advance accountability through a continuum of evaluation services and targeted technical assistance to all key stakeholder groups to establish, strengthen and meaningfully measure student and organizational achievement.
• Collaboration – We foster cooperative working relationships between schools of choice and school districts and proactively collaborate with all public education practitioners and stakeholders through all of our services and activities.
• Innovation – NWCEO promotes and supports promising new ideas and approaches, both within our organization and the public school sector.
• Leadership – We serve as the leading expert and support organization for quality charter schools and sponsors in Oregon and throughout the Pacific Northwest.
• Advocacy – We initiate and advance Legislation and policies to enhance Oregon’s charter school law to provide increased opportunities, while protecting the current strengths of the law.

Experience

NWCEO Board Members, Advisory Council Members and Staff collectively have decades of demonstrated successful leadership in traditional public schools, school districts, public charter schools, education reform initiatives, and public education law. NWCEO leaders have extensive experience and expert knowledge related to all aspects of starting, operating and overseeing individual schools, regional and state-wide networks of schools and initiatives that increase student achievement and strengthen the efficacy of the public school system. NWCEO leaders also have strong relationships with other key public education advocates and stakeholders, as well as with policy-makers, and successful experience in collaboratively creating and implementing laws, policies and practices that benefit students, schools, and systems.