College Counseling in Charter High Schools: Examining the Opportunities and Challenges

Through analyses of counselor interview data, the authors highlight the challenges to and opportunities of college counseling in a recently chartered college preparatory high school. The findings suggest that the charter school framework provides counselors with innovative organizational structures to foster college counseling and student social supports, but the organizational challenges of sustaining a new school distracts counselors from reflecting on and implementing a comprehensive college counseling model.