2022

CharterFolk Year in Review 2022 – Greetings from Pondicherry

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

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CharterFolk Contributor Laurie Brown: Anti-charter Rhetoric is Rooted in Racism — Let’s Not Be Afraid to Call it Out

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

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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?

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

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CharterFolk Contributor Cameron Curry – Thanksgiving is a Time to Celebrate Charter Public Schools

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

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CharterFolk Contributors Greg Richmond and Paul Escala – Superintendents of Two Archdioceses Share Why Catholic Schools are the Highest Performing “State” on All NAEP Tests

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

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The Next Shoe Drops in Educational NIMBYism | The ABC’s of Villain Identification | Setting the Industry Standard For Deception | Documenting CTA/NEA “Salting” Strategies

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

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