Good morning, CharterFolk. CharterFolk began on June 8, 2020 with the post Welcome to CharterFolk. The effort started at a moment of great racial reckoning both for our nation as well as for our movement. We were also in the middle of a great pandemic which has made CharterFolk’s contributions to public education among the
Good morning, CharterFolk. I don’t have a lot to add to what many others have been sharing regarding the nomination of Miguel Cardonas for the US Secretary of Education post. CharterFolk in Connecticut report that Cardonas is someone we can work with. In comparison to virtually all other names that were surfaced in recent weeks,
Good morning CharterFolk. Thanks to many of you for signing onto Margaret Fortune’s petition opposing Lily Eskelsen Garcia and Randi Weingarten being nominated for US Secretary of Education. It’s still not too late to sign. So if you haven’t don’t so already, I encourage you to do so today. Thanks also to many of you
Good Morning CharterFolk. Today’s it’s a lot of fun for me to share with you our 5th CharterFolk Chat, this time with Larry Rosenstock and Don Shalvey, folks who have referred to one another as “brothers from other mothers” for over two decades. There are few people who I have learned as much from in
Listen to as a Podcast (6 minutes) Good morning, CharterFolk. We are coming down to crunch time for Biden’s announcement for US Secretary of Education nominee. I hope all of you will take a minute to sign Margaret Fortune’s petition opposing Lily Eskelsen Garcia for that role. https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/fighting-against-lily-eskelsen-garcia-for-education-secretary I have written previously about the existential
Good morning, CharterFolk, Today it is my pleasure to recognize Gary Jacobs, the Board Chair of High Tech High, as CharterFolk Extraordinaire. Gary was among the group of 40 business leaders in San Diego in the late 90’s who met to discuss the need to improve public education in San Diego so that more students
Good morning, CharterFolk. I hope you have all had a chance to read this recent article by Jay Matthews at the Washington Post. It has to be about the best article about charter schools we have seen in a major publication in a long time. Judging by its headline alone, you would assume the article
Good morning, CharterFolk. Okay, I admit it right out of the gate. I don’t literally mean we should make a goal of having a billion kids in charter schools. We only have about a third of that many people living in the United States. Though I suppose if we look globally and see there are
Today it is our pleasure to recognize Christopher Mayes, Superintendent of Beatrice Mayes Institute in Houston Texas, as CharterFolk Extraordinaire. Like example after example of other leaders recognized as CharterFolk Extraordinaire, Christopher comes from a long line of educators committed to improving educational opportunity for the kids and communities who need it most. The organization
Good morning, CharterFolk. Well, you did it again. I confessed on Wednesday that I didn’t have a good feel yet for the kinds of pieces that generate the highest readership, and then that very post had the highest readership of any single column we have posted here since the first day of CharterFolk. I guess