CharterFolk Year in Review 2022 – Greetings from Pondicherry
December 30, 2022
Happy Holidays, CharterFolk. I file this year’s review from India. 25 years ago tonight, some of our very closest friends
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CharterFolk Contributor Laurie Brown: Anti-charter Rhetoric is Rooted in Racism — Let’s Not Be Afraid to Call it Out
December 15, 2022
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Laurie Brown, Senior Vice President of Nashville Advocacy
Schools that Work … For Themselves, Part 2 – United Way Naiveté and the Courageous Acts that Really Drive Change
December 14, 2022
Good morning, CharterFolk. A combination of high volumes of regular work and difficulty generating material meeting my own quality bar
3 Brief Codas and a Prompt – Sometimes It’s Stunning How Much Things That Really Matter Just Don’t Matter
December 7, 2022
Good day, CharterFolk. I’ll make today’s post a brief one so I can attend to regular work while making time
The Disconnect Widens, The Establishment Digs In, The Spark Consumes Its Fuse – Who But CharterFolk Will Advance the North Star that Public Education Needs Now?
December 4, 2022
Good day, CharterFolk. Long time readers will know that for a couple years now I have been writing about what
Go West, VillageFolk! Why It’s So Important We Protect the Idea of Frontier in Public Education.
November 30, 2022
Good day, CharterFolk. I hope you’re in the middle of a great week. I’d like to focus today on the
The 30-Month in Gut-Check: Greatly More Public Schools – A Lasting North Star or Not?
November 26, 2022
Good day, CharterFolk. Amid the Thanksgiving break, I have found myself in head-down mode, focused on my work and falling
CharterFolk Contributor Cameron Curry – Thanksgiving is a Time to Celebrate Charter Public Schools
November 23, 2022
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Cameron Curry, CEO of The Classical Academies. I
CharterFolk Contributors Greg Richmond and Paul Escala – Superintendents of Two Archdioceses Share Why Catholic Schools are the Highest Performing “State” on All NAEP Tests
November 17, 2022
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a co-authored contributor column from Greg Richmond, the Superintendent of Schools for
The Next Shoe Drops in Educational NIMBYism | The ABC’s of Villain Identification | Setting the Industry Standard For Deception | Documenting CTA/NEA “Salting” Strategies
November 15, 2022
Good day, CharterFolk. A theme across my 30 months of writing here at CharterFolk has been that it is worthwhile