Good morning, CharterFolk. What a year it has been since I posted the 2020 Year in Review. Somehow against a backdrop of challenge in public education more severe than any of us have seen in our lifetimes, on top of CharterFolk finding a way to keep bringing it for kids and for charter school advocacy,
Good day, CharterFolk. I thought I’d get off one more post before taking a break for the holidays. Aside from our Year in Review which I’ll send sometime next week, this will be the last you hear from me until 2022. I wanted to pick up from where we left off on Monday, when I
Good morning, CharterFolk. I start out this morning confessing that I have been struggling with today’s post. I had a draft of it finished in the middle of last week, and I had planned to publish it and then move on to other topics with an additional post before the holidays. But things kept coming
Weekend’s Greetings, CharterFolk. A few quick things before we get to today’s post. Let’s get on to the post. ________________________________________ I’d like to start off returning to Jim Blew’s smart Contributor Column from last week. In it he lamented that the charter school movement may be more fragile than it’s ever been before. Another title
Good afternoon, CharterFolk. Today we celebrate having the privilege to share with you a great Contributor Column from Julio Vázquez, Sr., the co-founder of Eugenio María de Hostos Charter School in Rochester, New York. I provide a brief bio for Julio below. Julio Vázquez Sr. retired as the Commissioner of Community Development of the city
Weekend’s Greetings, CharterFolk. I hope you are finding a chance to get a breath between busy weeks. I didn’t want to let Monday come around without commenting on the Bloomberg announcement, which I consider to be some of the most important news to have happened in charterland in the Biden era. But before I turn
Good morning, CharterFolk. Today I am delighted to share with you a contributor column from Jim Blew. I provide a brief bio for Jim below. Jim has actively advocated for charter schools and education reform for more than 25 years in a variety of organizations, including 50CAN and StudentsFirst. For nearly a decade through 2014, he
Good afternoon, CharterFolk. Coming off the Thanksgiving week, I wanted to share a column that, by rights, I should have completed months ago. And it is one that I should be up front about my conflicts. The Fisher Family has been very supportive of organizations that I have worked for, and I personally start from
Good morning, CharterFolk. This week we are excited to recognize Michael Chalupa, Executive Director of City Neighbors Foundation in Baltimore, Maryland, as CharterFolk Extraordinaire. City Neighbors is the story of a group of people who have been driven by a belief that public schools carefully created by intentional designs and supported by entire communities have
Weekend’s Greetings, CharterFolk. A year and a half into doing CharterFolk, I keep bumping into things I would never have expected. Like last week when one of my long-ago students from Hooper Avenue, Yuridia Nava, who now goes by Yuridia Frausto, tracked me down through CharterFolk. That led to she and I having a great