June, 2022 - CharterFolk

Touched by Your Comments|The Teachable Moment in Pennsylvania – Will We Unleash Our Full Potential or 1/26th of It?|The National Alliance Pushes for Equal Protection|Every Generation Figures Out Its Way to Screw Over High Needs Kids.

June 23, 2022

Good morning, CharterFolk. It was great to see so many of you at conference this year, and I do admit to being quite touched by those of you who went out of your way to approach me in person to thank us for our work here at CharterFolk. It’s encouraging to know that our efforts

CharterFolk Contributor Jay Artis–Wright – Take 60 Seconds Tomorrow to Support Philadelphia Charters, the AACSC, and FCCS

June 22, 2022

Good morning CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Jay Artis-Wright, Executive Director of the Freedom Coalition for Charter Schools. I provide Jay’s bios below. Jay Artis-Wright is the executive director of the Freedom Coalition for Charter Schools (FCCS) an organization established in 2019 to bring the voices of Black and

Observations Heading Into Conference – Not Rocket Science, Just Structure, Leadership and Support

June 20, 2022

Good morning, CharterFolk. So we head into national conference week, the first we’ve had in person in three years. Much has changed since last we gathered, putting into sharper repose the essential things we need to do to succeed as a movement. The most important question that presents itself, at least as far as I

The Echo Clique Spreads Gossip Undercutting Their Own Case and Defying Common Sense

June 17, 2022

Good afternoon, CharterFolk. I am looking forward to seeing many of you next week at the national conference. As ever, there will be too many great things going on to be able to attend them all. If you have time, come check out the conversation I’ll be part of with Naomi, Shavar and Rick. Of

CharterFolk Contributor Renita K. Thukral – It’s Time to Flip the Script. Are You Ready to Litigate?

June 15, 2022

Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Renita K. Thukral, Senior Advisor, Legal Affairs, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and Co-Founder and Partner, Civil Rights Solutions. I provide Renita’s bio below. Renita K. Thukral is the Senior Advisor for Legal Affairs at the National Alliance for Public Charter

Cardona Plows on Making the “Stewardship” Argument. It Opens Up a Moment of Huge Opportunity.

June 13, 2022

Good morning, CharterFolk. The big news last week was that the Biden Administration, after giving itself a little time to deliberate, decided to proceed further down the path of attempting to gut the federal Charter Schools Program with their terrible proposed regulations. I recognize how off the mark it may be to refer to something

CharterFolk Contributor Anthony D. Wilson, II – The Five Power Moves Every Advocacy-Forward CMO Must Make

June 9, 2022

Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Anthony D. Wilson, the founding Executive Director of Equity in Education. I provide Anthony’s bio below. Anthony Wilson is the founding Executive Director of Equity in Education, a nonprofit advocacy organization designed to help create the community and political conditions to ensure

An Establishment Gone BANANAs – Our Next Chapter is Projecting Permanence

June 8, 2022

Good day, CharterFolk. Lots to cover today. Let’s get straight to the update. Those Who Live Both Literally and Figuratively in Marin Some of you may have seen this story from the New York Times over the weekend. CharterFolk readers may remember that I have often equated housing NIMBYism to educational NIMBYism. I thought the

An Establishment That Remains Sound Asleep

June 5, 2022

Weekend’s greetings, Charterfolk. Quite another eventful week in charterland. Let me see if I can draw a few threads together. A Wake Up Call Late this week we saw this op-ed come out from Michael Bloomberg. It’s something of a companion piece to his announcement in December. Like I wrote about his earlier piece, this

CharterFolk Contributor Andrew Broy – Busting the Myth: Charter Schools Can Secure Major Policy Wins in Deep Blue States

June 2, 2022

Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Andrew Broy, the President of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS). I provide Andrew’s bio below. Andrew is an advocate. He serves as President of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools (INCS), a statewide advocacy and charter school support organization serving

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