Happy Holidays, CharterFolk. I file this year’s review from India. 25 years ago tonight, some of our very closest friends were married in Delhi and asked if Amy and I would attend. It turned out to be one of the most magical experiences of our lives. A quarter century later we are back celebrating their
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Laurie Brown, Senior Vice President of Nashville Advocacy for the Tennessee Charter School Center and Advocacy Lead for the Nashville Charter Collaborative. I provide a brief bio for Laurie below. Laurie has spent the last decade making good trouble to ensure that students
Good morning, CharterFolk. A combination of high volumes of regular work and difficulty generating material meeting my own quality bar on the highly complicated subject of education reform in Los Angeles over the past 25 years has me sending out this post later than I intended. I also have an extended holiday trip with family
Good day, CharterFolk. I’ll make today’s post a brief one so I can attend to regular work while making time for a longer one over the weekend. In the past couple days I have found it striking to see three new articles appear which could all be thought of as nearly perfect codas to recent
Good day, CharterFolk. Long time readers will know that for a couple years now I have been writing about what I call “The Great Disconnect in Public Education.” I made it the central framing theme for my first post of 2021. The underlying thesis is that, in terms of generating value against the Equity and
Good day, CharterFolk. I hope you’re in the middle of a great week. I’d like to focus today on the column that Dan offered a couple weeks back … … about the momentum we see in Colorado’s charter school movement. It builds on similar stories we have heard in recent months from Starlee in Texas
Good day, CharterFolk. Amid the Thanksgiving break, I have found myself in head-down mode, focused on my work and falling behind on proper expressions of gratitude for what everyone is doing to help advance our shared cause. That certainly is the case here at CharterFolk. Here I am behind in thanking Cameron Curry for his
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Cameron Curry, CEO of The Classical Academies. I provide Cameron’s bio below. Cameron Curry is the CEO of The Classical Academies, a charter school organization serving 5400 students in northern San Diego County. Under Cameron’s leadership, Classical Academies became the first public charter
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a co-authored contributor column from Greg Richmond, the Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago, and Paul Escala, the Senior Director and Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Given Greg and Paul collectively devoted 35+ years to charter public schools before transitioning to
Good day, CharterFolk. A theme across my 30 months of writing here at CharterFolk has been that it is worthwhile for the rest of the nation to pay special attention to the strategies that the Establishment is using against charter schools in California because they are virtually certain to spread across the country. Indeed, you