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(2023) . We need better education policy. Summit Public Schools shows why. Boulder, CO: National Education Policy Center. Retrieved [date] from [http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/summit-2023](http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/summit-2023)  \nPeer Review: We Need Better Education Policy. Summit Public Schools Shows Why was doubleblind peer-reviewed.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International License.  \nThis publication is provided free of cost to NEPC’s readers, who may make non-commercial use of it as long as NEPC and its author(s) are credited as the source. For inquiries about commercial use, please [contact NEPC at](contact NEPC at nepc@colorado.edu)[ nepc@colorado.edu](contact NEPC at nepc@colorado.edu).  \nThe National Education Policy Center (NEPC), a university research center housed at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education, sponsors research, produces policy briefs, and publishes expert third-party reviews of think tank reports. NEPC publications are written in accessible language and are intended for a broad audience that includes academic experts, policymakers, the media, and the general public. Our mission is to provide high-quality information in support of democratic deliberation about education policy. We are guided by the belief that the democratic governance of public education is strengthened when policies are based on sound evidence and support a multiracial society that is inclusive, kind, and just. Visit us at: [http://nepc.colorado.edu](http://nepc.colorado.edu)  \n[http://nepc.colorado.edu/](http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/summit-2023)[publication/summit-2023](http://nepc.colorado.edu/publication/summit-2023) 2 of 47  \nWe Need Better Education Policy.  \nSummit Public Schools Shows Why.  \nAlex Molnar, Faith Boninger, & Anna Noble University of Colorado Boulder  \nMeenakshi Mani University of Edinburgh  \nSeptember 2023  \nExecutive Summary  \nSummit Public Schools (SPS), a California-based charter school network established in 2003, is widely promoted nationally as a success story to be emulated. A policy environment friendly to charter schools and digital technologies, together with hundreds of millions of dollars in technology industry contributions, enabled its growth and its national visibility. Discounting these important factors, marketing materials assert that an innovative curriculum and instruction program anchored in its proprietary digital platform led to SPS’s success in graduating extraordinary percentages of its students eligible for, accepted into, and graduated from college. Because of SPS’s boasts of success and its national prominence, 1 understanding its story is a useful way to gain insight into how Silicon Valley funds and markets education initiatives. It also reveals inadequacies in policy related to school performance, digital educational programs, protection of student data, and school funding.  \nIn November 2019 we submitted a request for records bearing on SPS’s reports of students’academic success, its curriculum and instruction program, its proprietary digital platform, its protection of student data, its funding, and the validity and reliability of its assessments. 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