Public Posts

Good morning, CharterFolk. I’m delighted to be able to share with you this month’s CharterFolk Chat with Derrell Bradford, Hanna Skandera and Andy Rotherham, where we discuss last week’s election results and what the implications are for charter schools. As I said during the interview: Our folks that are joining us today, really need very … Read more

Listen to this post as a podcast. Subscribe. Good morning, CharterFolk. Excited about readership levels of Kyle Rosenkrans’s piece about Newark. I really liked his observations that unlikely political alliances and encouragement of charter school stakeholders to be involved in elections really matter. And regarding his comment on mudslinging, I actually agree with him. I … Read more

Good morning, CharterFolk. Today I’m delighted to be able to share our third CharterFolk Chat, this one with Nina Rees, CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Here is how I introduced Nina in the interview: I am a very big fan of Nina Rees …. I was on the Board of the … Read more

Good morning, CharterFolk. Thanks for your many compliments about Scott Pearson’s great post yesterday. Thanks also to several new subscribers. For those of you who have been meaning to subscribe but haven’t yet, I encourage you to do so here. Update Summary: Today I recount how Larry Rosenstock used to share a story about the … Read more

Hello CharterFolk, Today’s a fun morning, one where I get to release our CharterFolk Chat with Howard Fuller. I’ll let my introduction on the tape suffice for my intro here: CharterFolk is designed for people who know a lot about charter schools and are passionate about them to begin with, and anybody that knows about … Read more

Good morning, CharterFolk. Today, I’m delighted to release our inaugural CharterFolk Chat with Arne Duncan. It was a great conversation where Arne described in strikingly urgent and honest terms the challenges that lie before our country. Coming at the issues from his own unique vantage point, he made a compelling argument for what we are … Read more

Good morning, CharterFolk.  We are close to meeting our subscriber match. Whether we do or don’t will come down to whether just a few more jump onboard. So it would be great to have you subscribe here if you can. On to the update. Update Summary: In recent years conditions have gotten more difficult for … Read more

Good morning, Charter Folk. Thanks to many of who have responded to our subscriber match.  If you haven’t signed up already, I encourage you to do so here.  The match offer is capped out at 50 new subscribers.  Anything you can do to help us reach that number, I would very much appreciate. Meanwhile, I … Read more

When I first began to imagine this thing that has turned out to be CharterFolk, I envisioned a completely different kind of roll out. And then COVID came. And then the death of George Floyd came. And those other plans had to be set aside. COVID I will get to in my next post. Today … Read more