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
Good morning, CharterFolk. Today it is my great pleasure to bring you a great Contributor Column from Joe Nathan. Joe certainly needs no introduction to CharterFolk. He has been providing key leadership going back to the very origins of our movement, and I have learned as much from him as anyone in Charterland. I’ll let
Good morning CharterFolk. I am tracking developments on a number of fronts this morning. I will return to the Great Disconnect Test Case next week allowing me to comment on a few other matters today. Marten and a New Era in Advocacy First, I wanted to revisit the Cindy Marten nomination which I wrote about
Good morning, CharterFolk. Today we are honored to recognize Joseph Polat, Executive Director of the Buffalo Academy of Science Charter School, as CharterFolk Extraordinaire. All attention in Buffalo this weekend focuses on whether their beloved Bills will make the Super Bowl for the first time in a generation. Our story focuses on the fact that
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
Good morning, CharterFolk. I start this morning with an apology. Over the weekend it came to our attention that about a tenth of the CharterFolk readership had been inadvertently kicked off the WordPress database through an automated process. The problem is now corrected, but for those of you who missed a few posts, I regret
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
Good morning, CharterFolk. Today we are pleased to recognize Jen Wickens, Co-Founder and CEO of Impact Public Schools in Washington State, as CharterFolk Extraordinaire. Rarely do you find a leader having a level of impact affecting the trajectory of an entire state’s charter school movement. But so it is with Jen. It starts with having
Good morning, CharterFolk. Last week in my first post of the year, I posited that 2021 is the Year of the Great Disconnect, making this year the most important in our lifetimes for public education. By that, I meant that we have never seen a circumstance where there is so little overlap between what public
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,