Good day, CharterFolk. We’re in the middle of National Charter Schools Week. The National Alliance is doing a great job leading the celebration. As only he can, Bruno Manno puts the long-term progress of the charter school movement in perspective. As Bruno put it: While charter schools haven’t replaced traditional K–12 public schools, they’ve done
Today we are excited the share the story of the extraordinary Rhonda Deomampo, CEO and Superintendent of Synergy Academies. There’s a word that Rhonda Deomampo keeps coming back to, and it’s not just because it inspired the creation of the school she has led for nearly a decade. Synergy. For Rhonda, who is the CEO and Superintendent of Synergy Academies in Los Angeles, that work is less a slogan
Weekend greetings, CharterFolk. Coming to you from the Big Apple this weekend. And Mother’s Day fun with the fam requires I keep it brief. Many thanks to Arthur and the team at MESA for hosting me on Friday. Arthur and Pagee were among our earlier contributors here at CharterFolk. It’s inspiring to see what MESA
Good morning CharterFolk. Today we are pleased to present a Contributor Column from Shaina Cavazos, Director of the Indianapolis Mayor’s Office of Education Innovation, and Patrick McAlister, Principal of PM Strategies. We provide brief bios for Shaina and Patrick below. Shaina Cavazos is director of the Mayor’s Office of Education Innovation, where she leads Indianapolis’s
Good day, CharterFolk. We had about as good an article come out about charter schools as we’ve seen in a while. It’s a great rendering of the compelling program being offered at Eagle Ridge in Minneapolis. It’s a school I haven’t visited yet. I’ll have to put that one on my list. Though I’m no
We are honored to profile the extraordinary Cherie Graham, Chief of Instructional Support and Family Engagement, Sugar Creek Charter School. There’s a story Cherie Graham likes to tell about the day she decided to join Sugar Creek Charter School. It was 2015. She’d been working as a teacher for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) — the second-largest school district in North Carolina — for ten years and was feeling the pull toward something
Weekend greetings, CharterFolk. I start out offering another thanks to DSST. As I wrote in my “Where Else Would I Rather Be” post in March, DSST’s signing day happened to fall on my 60th birthday, which was last week. So Nella and the team invited me back … … to see it in person. 10,000
Good day, CharterFolk. We have a treat for those of you who can find some time this weekend: going straight up, no chaser with Andrew Broy, President and CEO of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools. You can find episode on the CharterFolk Website with a transcription, on Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, and on YouTube.
Good morning, CharterFolk. I cover something of a hodge podge of progress today. Call it eclectic momentum. I start in Iowa where a couple of weeks ago I was on a statewide forum about charter school policy with Iowa association CEO Mike Huguelet, who participated in the call from inside the capitol building as he
Weekend greetings, CharterFolk. I’m back from three days in Indianapolis for The Mind Trust’s 20th anniversary celebration. Over 1100 people were on hand to recognize an organization’s progress. But more importantly, an entire city’s. One of the highlights was Jalen Rose’s keynote. … whose school’s Executive Director, Jazmine Allen, we had a chance to recognize