Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Lydia Hoffman, a partner at the Charter School Growth Fund. I provide Lydia’s bio below. Lydia is a partner at the Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), a national nonprofit that identifies the country’s best public charter schools,
Weekend greetings CharterFolk. It is difficult from my remote location to craft a full post, but I did not want to let the occasion pass without offering proper recognition of Nina Rees for her amazing service at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. As most of you know by
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Dr. Kathleen Hermsmeyer, Superintendent for Springs Charter Schools. I provide Kathleen’s bio below. Dr. Kathleen Hermsmeyer founded California’s largest county-wide benefit charter school, River Springs, in 2005 and serves as the Superintendent of this charter, along with five
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Dr. David Akdemir, the Executive Director of Harmony Education Solutions. I provide David’s bio below. Dr. David C. Akdemir is the Executive Director of Harmony Education Solutions, the purpose of which is to provide support and consultation
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 …
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Khalique Rogers and Joe Nathan, co-directors of the Center for School Change. We provide brief bios for Khalique and Joe below. Both have been asked to speak at several national conferences and co-authored several columns published in
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
Greetings, CharterFolk! This week, Andy and I are talking with Lakisha Young, the Founder and CEO of The Oakland REACH, and Heather Harding, Ed.D, the Executive Director of the Campaign for a Shared Future. Our conversation focuses on the difficult judgement calls parents and advocates are having to make as
Good day, CharterFolk. I hope your week is off to a great start. On Friday the CharterFolk Board of Directors met. I’d like to make this post a Community Update letting the readership know about important developments happening here at CharterFolk. News includes the following: Let’s take them in order.
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
Greetings, CharterFolk! This week, Andy and I are talking about traveling and the fun of summer, our two mystery guests for the next WonkyFolk, and finding educational common ground via the juxtaposition of partisan politics and genuine educational accomplishments in Virginia. Here is a link to our conversation where you
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Chris Reynolds, Senior Advisor for New Schools for Alabama (NSFA). I provide Chris’ bio below. Chris Reynolds is the Senior Advisor for New Schools for Alabama. Chris is a former CPA with an extensive background in charter
Good day CharterFolk. I start off acknowledging some incongruities here. I said I’d get a post off to you about how our 201, 301 and 401-Levels of work related to Free, Public and Open to All can all be integrated. But my regular work has really spiked, cutting majorly into
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share the first edition of CharterFolk on the Move from Mollie Mitchell, the President and Founder of The K12 Search Group. I provide Mollie’s bio below. Mollie Mitchell is the President and Founder of The K12 Search Group, a national search firm that
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
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
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Chris Topham, Executive Director Sebastopol Independent Charter School, a Public Waldorf School. I provide Chris’ bio below. Chris joined Sebastopol Charter in 2013. Prior to arriving, Chris served as the Lower School Coordinator at Summerfield Waldorf School,
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
Good morning, CharterFolk! Today we are pleased to share a contributor column from Brittany Kinser, CEO and President of City Forward Collective. I provide Brittany’s bio below. Brittany Kinser has spent her professional life as a teacher and education leader, and currently serves as the CEO and President of City
Good day, CharterFolk. I’m working on a couple longer “eat your vegetables” pieces on advocacy matters which I’ll post over the next week. Meanwhile, let me get this shorter one out to you today about some recent articles in ed world which provide a backdrop for our work. By now