January 2021

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Greatly More Public Education

Good morning, CharterFolk. Thanks to many of you for passing along compliments about Joe Nathan’s great post from earlier this week. For those of you who missed it, I encourage you to check it out. Thanks also to many of you for responding to our match challenges. We already have nine new paid subscribers from

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CharterFolk Note – 10 New Match Challenges from Donors Across the Country!

Good morning, CharterFolk! We’ve got some exciting news for you this morning. Ten donors from across the country have offered $1500 match challenges to encourage more readers to sign up for paid subscriptions to CharterFolk. Nine of the commitments are state-specific, challenging ten new readers from their respective states to sign up. A tenth donor

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CharterFolk Chat #6 – Brantley, Tavenner and Bradford, Resisting the “Arranged Marriage” of Public Education that is Being Imposed on Students

Good morning, CharterFolk. I always hope you’ll find time to review content coming from CharterFolk contributors, but I’m really hoping you do so today when we are releasing our first CharterFolk Chat of 2021. Our contributors today are: Pat Brantley, CEO of Friendship Public Schools in Washington DCDiane Tavenner, CEO of Summit Public Schools in

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CharterFolk Contributor Paul Goodwin – Changing the Narrative about Education Reform: A Civil Right to a Quality Public Education

Good morning, CharterFolk. This morning I am delighted to share with you a Contributor Column from Paul Goodwin. I provide a brief bio for Paul below: Paul Goodwin, President of Goodwin Simon Strategic Research, is a veteran California pollster. Paul conducts opinion research for political and policy clients, including EdVoice, the California Charter School Association,

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