CharterFolk Chat

CharterFolk Chat: Diana Diaz-Harrison of the 2022 Yass Prize Winner, Arizona Autism Charter Schools

Good morning, CharterFolk. Today we bring you a CharterFolk Chat with Diana Diaz-Harrison, Founder & Executive Director of Arizona Autism Charter Schools. You may access Diana’s bio here. In 2012, Diana worked with parents and grandparents of children with autism and professionals to create Arizona’s first autism-focused charter school, which was the top million dollar

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CharterFolk Chat #10 – Kim Smith, Returning to First Principles

Good morning, CharterFolk. Today I am delighted to share with you a CharterFolk Chat with Kim Smith. As always, you can access the chat at Youtube, but I’m excited to share that readers can now also listen to the chat through Spotify and Apple Podcasts, where you will find links to all previously recorded CharterFolk

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CharterFolk Chat #9 – Ember Reichgott Junge and Gary Hart, Pioneering Legislators of the Charter School Movement Reflect on Our 30th Anniversary

Good morning, CharterFolk. Today we have a special one for you, a CharterFolk Chat with two legends from our movement, former Minnesota State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge and former California State Senator Gary Hart, the legislators who passed the first two charter school laws in the United States. I always hope CharterFolk will find time

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CharterFolk Chat #8 – Castrejón, Coleman and Broy, Forging the Yellow Brick Road Toward the Emerald City of True Charter School Advocacy Strength and Influence

Good morning CharterFolk. I’m super excited to roll out our 8th CharterFolk Chat, this one focusing on fun and creative ways to talk about the critical need to build charter school advocacy and political strength at a state level. I mean, where else but CharterFolk can you get a chance to hear Myrna Castrejón crack

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CharterFolk Chat #7 – Nella Garcia Urban, Challenging the Charter School Movement to Sponsor a New Generation of Latino Leadership

Good morning CharterFolk. Today I am excited to release our latest CharterFolk Chat, this one with Nella Garcia Urban, Chief Program Officer for Yes Prep Public Schools. As CharterFolk will remember, Nella joined three other Latino Contributors to pen a great column to kick off the New Year. CharterFolk Contributor Column – The Missing Charter

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CharterFolk Chat #6 – Brantley, Tavenner and Bradford, Resisting the “Arranged Marriage” of Public Education that is Being Imposed on Students

Good morning, CharterFolk. I always hope you’ll find time to review content coming from CharterFolk contributors, but I’m really hoping you do so today when we are releasing our first CharterFolk Chat of 2021. Our contributors today are: Pat Brantley, CEO of Friendship Public Schools in Washington DCDiane Tavenner, CEO of Summit Public Schools in

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