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CharterFolk Contributor Caprice Young – The Movement Matures, Matters Even More

Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Caprice Young, Ed.D., President, Education Growth Group. I provide Caprice’s bio below. Dr. Young is an experienced transformational executive and superintendent with proven leadership in board governance and C-level roles. Raised in a foster family, she has committed her life to improving

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One Time Fits All – 6 Million Kids Get Another 30 Minutes of Shut-Eye While All of Public Education Goes A Little More to Sleep

Good morning, CharterFolk. As some of you may be tracking this summer, California has made a big change affecting education for millions of students. Apparently, the research is unequivocal. Schools start too early. Before we had the Covid epidemic, we had another one. The teen-sleep-deprivation pandemic. One so severe, as the American Psychological Association described

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CharterFolk Contributors Jose Perez and Joe Nathan:  A Plea to Build on Students’ Strengths and Change the World

Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Jose Perez and Joe Nathan. A Plea to Build on Students’ Strengths and Change the World Whether it’s high school students successfully challenging their state and bringing millions to students laid off because of the pandemic, or elementary students designing and building

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A New Lawsuit Continues the Pushback on the Feds

Good morning, CharterFolk. I’ll get a quick post off to you today amid a rush of other work happening this week. There’s certainly a lot of news in Charterland. The breadth of the enrollment crisis in big cities is really beginning to register now. As is the breadth of the teacher shortage, with some districts

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Our Real CSP Challenge Has Only Just Begun …

Good morning, CharterFolk. I start today with an apology. Last week we encountered a challenge with our IT platform which shut down our distribution of emails literally midway through getting a post out to you. About half of you received last week’s column on time, while the other half had it show up five days

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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.

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

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