June 2020

CharterFolk First Philanthropy – A Subscriber Match!

Hey CharterFolk! I have some fun news to share with you, but first a little background: As I have been reporting since my first day of writing here, it is important to me that CharterFolk becomes a viable long-term platform. That means I am consciously working to make sure that it does not become overly

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Armageddon or Not, CharterFolk Come Together

Good morning, CharterFolk. Again, all the best laid plans … At the conclusion of my last post, I left you with a cliffhanger, which I planned to return to today. But some things have happened over the last 24 hours that would make it off the mark to pick up where I left off. So

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Where Boneheads Dropped the Ball on Vision

Hey CharterFolk. Thanks to so many of you who have become subscribers in recent days. Thanks also to so many of you for responding to yesterday’s insta-poll. While it’s obviously not a statistically valid exercise, results are striking nonetheless … 100% of respondents said they agreed that the charter school movement would benefit from an

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Insta-Poll: Vision

Has Wallace come unglued? Good morning, CharterFolk. Hope you had a great weekend. We had such good readership levels last week, and I got so much sidebar comment on the No Vision, No Voice post, I thought a 30-second insta-poll of CharterFolk might be a fun way to start off the week. So here goes.  Two

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New Subscribers, NonProfit Status and Arne Duncan!

Hey CharterFolk! Hope you are headed into a great weekend. In the early going, I am going to make some quick posts on Fridays to share CharterFolk news and developments, such as: CharterFolk grew 150 new subcribers in the first two weeks! 50 of them were paid subscribers from 14 states! To all of you

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No Vision, No Voice

Good morning, CharterFolk. Exciting to have so many new subscribers! If you haven’t signed up yet, please do so here. Having had a chance now to address the death of George Floyd and the COVID-19 crisis, I am able now to turn to what I always envisioned beginning with here at CharterFolk: The beginning. What

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CharterFolk – As Essential as Any Found Anywhere

Good Morning, CharterFolk. Thanks to so many of you who helped make CharterFolk’s first week a successful one. I appreciate your many compliments and well wishes. It’s also exciting to have so many of you subscribing. To those of you who haven’t signed up already, I encourage you to do so here. And please invite

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Announcing the CharterFolk Forum

Good morning. I wanted to get a quick note out to you thanking you for your response to our early posts here at CharterFolk. For those many of you who have subscribed already, I thank you.  It is terrific to have your support in this critical early going.  For those of you who have been

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Why We Give a Damn About Charter Schools

When I first began to imagine this thing that has turned out to be CharterFolk, I envisioned a completely different kind of roll out. And then COVID came. And then the death of George Floyd came. And those other plans had to be set aside. COVID I will get to in my next post. Today

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