Jed Wallace

How We Overcome The Educational Pickleball Challenge

Good day, CharterFolk. I swear. Sometimes I struggle to make sense of things. Have you seen this one? A wealthy woman in San Francisco who is trying to get rid of public pickleball courts in her area … … owns a mansion on the market for $36 million that … … literally … … has

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The 401-Level – When Free, Public and Open to All Becomes Our Agenda

Weekend greetings, CharterFolk, We’ve had a lot of outreach this week in response to our Community Update from Tuesday. I appreciate so much your encouragement and warm wishes. CharterFolk does seem to be on a pretty great trajectory these days, but we wouldn’t be making anywhere near the progress that we are, were it not

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Signs of the Even More Greatly Disconnected Times

Good day, CharterFolk. I’ll get on to the final “401-Level” of Free, Public, Open to All in my next post. In the meantime, there are some “signs of the times” articles in the edusphere I’d like to highlight. Let’s get to them now. Signs of the Even More Greatly Disconnected Times Long-time readers will remember

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Announcing CharterFolk on the Move!

Good day, CharterFolk. We are excited to announce that tomorrow you will be seeing a new feature here at CharterFolk, a quarterly post we will be calling “CharterFolk on the Move” which will be compiled by Mollie Mitchell. Old time ed reformers will remember that Mollie, a highly respected executive recruiter who founded The K12 Search

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What to Do in an Era of People Losing Even More Faith in Public Schools

Good day, CharterFolk. Open rates here at CharterFolk stay in the 45% to 50% range, which in comparison to industry benchmarks remain encouragingly high. I thank you all for your continued support. And we keep seeing new growth in readership coming to CharterFolk. New organizations are signing up for organizational subscriptions. We’re also having several

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Accentuating CharterNess; 101, 201 and 301 Levels; Being Clear About the That, the What and the Why; How Free, Public and Open to All Really Boils Down to Public, Public, and Even More Public

Good day, CharterFolk. I start off today sharing my sense that we may be turning a corner. Turning away from a time when many of us in charterland wanted to downplay our charterness in order to accentuate our publicness, toward a time when we realize that we have to embrace both our charterness and our

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