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National Charter Schools Week

Rolling coverage of the annual school choice celebrations — National Charter Schools Week in May & School Choice Week every January

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Meet 7 Changemakers Who Are Raising Their Voices for Public Education

Debbie Veney

This Teacher Appreciation Week, Celebrating Charter School Educators

Nina Rees

A Children’s Shelter in Northwest Arkansas Has a New Plan to Help Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma: Launch a New School Built Just For Them

Laura Fay

Wilkins & Ziebarth: 2019 Champions for Charters and Hall of Famers Show Support for Charter Schools Across the Aisle & the Country

Amy Wilkins & Todd Ziebarth

Dobard: From Strong Accountability to Open Enrollment and Community Engagement, 10 Reasons New Orleans’s Schools Are Succeeding

Patrick Dobard

Pahl: How a Coalition of Educators, Activists and Families Saved Charter Schools in the New Mexico Legislature

Matthew Pahl

Langhorne: These 5 D.C. Charter Schools All Have the Same Mission but Couldn’t Be More Different

Emily Langhorne

Survey Shows 3 in 4 Californians Support Charters as Alternatives for Low-Income Families; Majority Are Concerned About Federal Policy and Undocumented Students

Esmeralda Fabián Romero

As It Closes In on 20 Years, IDEA Public Schools, Texas’s Homegrown Charter Network, Is Big, Bold and Sticking to the Basics

Bekah McNeel

Uncommon Schools’ New President Julie Jackson Talks Community Circles, Transition Points, College Completion & Loving Our Students

Richard Whitmire

Nina Rees: This National Charter Schools Week, It’s More Important Than Ever to Celebrate the Success of 3.2 Million Charter Kids

Nina Rees

The Investing in Opportunity Act: Hidden in the New Tax Bill, a Program to Help Charter Schools Secure Funds to Expand in High-Needs Areas

John Bailey

DC Charter’s Project-Based After-School Program ‘Wows’ in Its Results for English Learners, Expands to District Schools

Carolyn Phenicie

Nina Rees: National Charter Schools Week, a Time for Celebrating Great Public Schools — and the Teachers Who Make Them Possible

Nina Rees

Purdue University President Mitch Daniels Looks to Expand His Indy Charter School, Saying ‘We Would Wait Forever’ If Relying on K-12 System to Improve

Carolyn Phenicie

Brizard and Pearson: Why Charter Boards Are the Key to School Success

Scott Pearson & Jean-Claude Brizard

Meet the 3 New Education Advocates to Be Inducted Into the National Charter School Hall of Fame

Kate Stringer

National Charter Schools Week to Toast 19 State & Federal ‘Champions’ From Both Parties at Capitol Hill

Mareesa Nicosia

Denver, Texas, NYC: Meet the 3 Finalists for This Year’s $250,000 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools

Mark Keierleber

Rees: National Charter Schools Week, and Bridging the Partisan Divide to Celebrate Great Public Schools

Nina Rees

Schooling, Reimagined: How Dacia Toll Shaped the Greenfield School By Borrowing From the Best

Richard Whitmire

Dozens of Indianapolis Schools, One Application: Nonprofit Aims for Easier, More Equitable Enrollment

Mark Keierleber

Parents at Work: Has EdNavigator Fixed School Engagement by Making It a Job Benefit?

Mareesa Nicosia

Analysis: School Choice — but Not in My Town. How to Integrate When Affluent Districts Pull Up the Drawbridge?

Kevin Mahnken

Maryland Education Reform Talk Heating Up as State Leaders Debate Vouchers, Charter Schools, ESSA

Mark Keierleber

Nebraska Lawmakers Propose Dozens of New Education Bills as Charters, Vouchers Gain Momentum

Mareesa Nicosia

America’s School Choice Map: 5 Hot Spots for Vouchers, Savings Accounts and Tuition Tax Breaks

Naomi Nix

Title I Portability, Grants, Tax Code Changes — The New Opportunities for Federal School Choice

Carolyn Phenicie

Merriweather: My Grad School Stats Say I Beat the Odds. A Private School Scholarship Let Me Do It

Denisha Merriweather

Poll — 75% of Millennials Support School Choice; Majority of Americans Like Trump’s $20 Billion Plan

Kate Stringer

Why These Two Tulsa Educators Returned Home to Save the Latino Students Too Often Left Behind

Kate Stringer

As Political Winds Shift in Texas, Charter Advocates Plan 2017 Push for Funds to Build New Schools

Mareesa Nicosia

Big IDEAS: High-Achieving South Texas Charter Network Reveals National Expansion Plan

Mareesa Nicosia

Greg Richmond: Are Charter School Standards At Risk From Within?

Greg Richmond

6 Innovative School Leaders Who Are Disrupting Traditional Education

Mark Keierleber

Case Study: Rainshadow H.S., a Haven for Nevada’s At-Risk Teens, Now Finds Itself At Risk of Closure

Max Eden

Favoring Charter Schools Moves from Concept to Reality for More Parents, New Survey Shows

Carolyn Phenicie