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
Weekend greetings, CharterFolk. At the highest level, I’ll leave analysis of election results to those from outside the country who have perspective that we don’t. As far as CharterWorld goes, people smarter than me are declaring victory. But I’m not so sure. Much was made of Youngkin’s victory in Virginia a year back, and it’s
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Dan Schaller, the President of the Colorado League of Charter Schools. I provide Dan’s bio below. Dan Schaller currently serves as President of the Colorado League of Charter Schools, a position he assumed in August of 2020 after having led the League’s policy
Good day, CharterFolk. It was good to be out canvassing this weekend with CharterFolk in Los Angeles for today’s school board races. Meanwhile, there is certainly much afoot in CharterLand right now. So before the Wednesday morning quarterbacking about election results begins, let me try to pull together some themes we return to often here
Hello CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Starlee Coleman, the CEO of the Texas Public Charter Schools Association (TPCSA). I provide Starlee’s bio below. Starlee Coleman has 20 years of experience turning public policy ideas into laws. Through strategic public affairs and PR campaigns, grassroots engagement, and coalition development, Starlee
Good morning, CharterFolk. I start today thanking Jack McCarthy for his Contributor Column from last week. I certainly agree with Jack that charter schools redoubling effort to make the advocacy and programmatic breakthroughs needed to expand our early education offerings would be a great contribution, especially in this era of learning loss when we need