The think tank will try to influence legislation to prevent new construction of schools bigger than 900 (high school) or 600 middle (I think) and maybe 300 for elementary schools. It'll supposedly reduce drop-out rates, raise student achievement, increase student safety, provide more extracurricular opportunities, and increase "stakeholder satisfaction" (teachers, students, principals, parents).
Wish I had the time & energy to help start a charter high school, but for now we're in the big one. The think tank says for existing large schools, they should try the "school within a school" approach. Smaller learning communities. Even at the >1200 high school, the banquet for 4.0+ students last year only had about a dozen freshmen.
