JPS Solutions

Focused Support: Real Results

We Help Educators Design, Improve and Sustain Excellent Schools.

AT JPS SOLUTIONS, WE ARE DEDICATED to transforming educational dreams into reality.

Our mission is to guide groups in building successful charter schools through expert advice and comprehensive support.

Start a new charter school
Renew a charter

Real Results

48+

Charters Successfully Created
or Renewed

$100+
million

in Grants

20+

Years of Expertise

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A Proven Track Record

For more than 20 years, JPS Solutions has helped charter schools successfully launch, renew, replicate and expand. Our approach to consulting ensures that each charter development group and leadership team receives customized services that address their unique strengths and needs

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Partners in Planning, Launching, Renewing, and Sustaining Successful Charter Schools

From preparing your charter application through launch, growth and renewal, we provide strategic guidance and hands-on support at every step. We’ll help build the capacity of your Board and leaders and secure the resources your school needs to thrive.

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JPS Evaluations

Program Evaluations for Charter Schools and School Districts

JPS Solutions designs and conducts program evaluations, programmatic audits and improvement plans. We work closely with you to ensure that our evaluations are living documents that lead to measurable schol and program improvement.

  • Data-driven insights
  • Customized evaluations to meet your unique needs
  • Enhancing programs through rigorous assessment and analysis
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Comprehensive Services to Help Your School Succeed

At JPS Solutions, we guide schools through every stage of their development and growth. Let our expert team help you transform your vision into reality

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Create New Charter Schools

We helped to create more than a dozen charter schools—from initial idea to successful application

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Guide Charter Schools to Successful Renewals

We’ve guided charter schools through more than three dozen successful charter renewals, replications and expansions

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Obtain Grants

We wrote or co-wrote grant applications that secured more than $100 million in government and private grants. These grants supported charter schools, after-school programs and a wide range of school improvement initiatives.

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Provide Program Evaluations for Continuous Improvement

We’ve designed and conducted evaluations for numerous grant-funded projects, and we’ve engaged educators in Board Development, School Improvement Planning and Professional Development

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What Our Clients Are Saying

It has been Innovation Charter High School’s privilege to partner with JPS Solutions through three successful charter renewals.. JPS Solutions has provided our leadership team and Board with strategic guidance, detailed insights, and a personalized approach that has been instrumental to our growth and sustainability as a school.

Throughout our most recent charter renewal, the JPS team met with us weekly, working closely with our leadership to address the unique challenges we faced—including how to demonstrate the highly positive impact we have on a student population with a need for comprehensive academic and counseling support. Their expertise helped us refine our programs and clearly articulate our mission and results to our authorizers.

JPS Solutions’ ongoing support, responsiveness, and deep understanding of the charter sector have made them invaluable partners. Their commitment to our success helped us to secure a full-term charter renewal in 2021 and to strengthen Innovation for the future. I highly recommend JPS Solutions to any nonprofit or school seeking expert, hands-on consulting support.

 
 
Stephen Falla Riff
Executive Director
Innovation Charter High School

More than 20 years ago we embarked on creating the first evidence-based charter school in NY State designed to exclusively serve children with autism.  Not everyone thought it was a good idea!  We needed people on our team who appreciated the needs of the children we were seeking to serve, understood the educational system and were skilled in writing and launching a school.  We turned to JPS.

JPS helped us write the original charter application appreciating the unique aspects of the school that enabled us to negotiate with the issuer.  They provided us with policies and practices that were tailored to our population which led not only to the initial approval but contributed to successful renewals and our replication. Evidence of their commitment was that Frank San Felice offered and served as a Founding Trustee.

JPS is an experienced organization that is skilled, determined, diligent and pragmatic.

Ilene Lainer
Co-Founder and Founding Board Chair
New York Center for Autism Charter School
Co-Founder, former President and Emeritus Board member of NEXT for AUTISM

JVL Wildcat Charter School has enjoyed a productive relationship with JPS Solutions for over 15 years. We collaborated on a federally supported school improvement initiative that JPS co-developed, and we worked together through two successful charter renewals. As a member of the first cohort of schools engaged in the PICCS project, a Teacher Incentive Fund-supported program that JPS Solutions helped to design and manage, Wildcat benefited from enhanced teacher effectiveness, and a collaborative school culture with a greater fous on data-driven conversations central to improving student outcomes. which motivated them to excel.

JPS Solutions understands the unique challenges we experience as a transfer high school exclusively serving over-aged, under-credited students. Most of our students have experienced interrupted schooling, economic hardship, housing instability, or involvement with the justice system. JPS Solutions has not only helped up strengthen our academic and support programs, but has also been instrumental in helping us document and communicate our progress and impact to our authorizer.

Ron Tabano
Principal/CEO
John V. Lindsay Wildcat Academy Charter School

I have worked with the team at JPS solutions for more than 15 years. They have supported both The Renaissance School and The Renaissance Charter School 2 in many different ways possibly most importantly during our charter renewals. What makes working with JPS so unique is that they are truly a thought-partner. As renewal is a time to reflect, revise and look toward the future, JPS was there with the Board, the School Management Team and me every step of the way. They understand exactly what the authorizers require to write a compelling narrative and this partnership was vital for processes that take well over a year from start to finish.

They got to know virtually every aspect of our school and helped to guide us in making wise decisions all along the way.

As I have said for many years now, small schools are bigger, smarter and stronger when they have caring and experienced partnerships to work with – and JPS Solutions is just that.

Stacey Gauthier
Executive Director
The Renaissance Charter School