Future Ready Replication Executive Summary

Expanding access to high-quality career-connected charter schools is essential to ensuring more students graduate prepared for success in college, careers, and life. Across the country, innovative schools are demonstrating how meaningful employer partnerships, work-based learning, industry-aligned pathways, and postsecondary connections can transform student outcomes. As these models mature, there is growing interest in replicating successful schools to extend opportunity into additional communities. Yet despite this momentum, there is little national guidance to help determine when a career-connected charter school is truly ready to scale.