Stories

Charter Schools

Don't Stop With Baby Formula and Meat, Joe. End All Monopolies That Harm Children.

Recently President Joe Biden made a blistering indictment of the meat industry. The president accused the industry of being a monopoly. Biden boasted about how much he and members of his...

Read More

Charter Schools

When We Cap Charter School Growth, We Cap Student Growth

It's time for charter school adversaries to wake up and realize they’re fighting an incredible chance to foster diversity in education in a way that promotes the liberty of individual students and...

Read More

Charter Schools

'Doing Less Was Not an Option.' How One New Jersey Charter School Kept Kids Learning No Matter What.

When COVID-19 hit New Jersey in March 2020, Efe Odeleye, the co-director of Achievers Early College Prep Charter School, was faced with a moral imperative: in order to best serve the public charter’s...

Read More

Charter Schools

Here’s Why KnowledgeWorks Is Studying My Charter High School

For the last 15 years, it has been my honor to support Springfield International Charter School (SICS), first as a history teacher, then for the last 11 years, as its principal. As is true for so...

Read More

Charter Schools

At Boston's Renaissance Charter, My Students Are Going Above and Beyond Their Pre-Pandemic Performance

As educators, we know that kids cannot learn if they don’t feel safe and supported at school. During the past two years, this truth was at its most visceral. Social-emotional learning (SEL)—which not...

Read More

Charter Schools

We Have an Education Crisis On Our Hands and Curtailing the Charter Schools Program Is No Way to Fix It

The recent announcement by the US Department of Education to propose radical changes to the process by which charter schools must follow to open new schools is a dismal reminder of our education...

Read More
Prev 2 3 4 5 6 Next