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National Charter Schools Week

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
National Charter Schools Week

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

Amy Wilkins & Todd Ziebarth
National Charter Schools Week

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

Patrick Dobard
National Charter Schools Week

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

Matthew Pahl
National Charter Schools Week

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

Emily Langhorne
National Charter Schools Week

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
National Charter Schools Week

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
National Charter Schools Week

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

Richard Whitmire
National Charter Schools Week

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
National Charter Schools Week

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
National Charter Schools Week

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

Carolyn Phenicie
National Charter Schools Week

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

Nina Rees
National Charter Schools Week

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
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Scott Pearson & Jean-Claude Brizard
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Kate Stringer
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Mareesa Nicosia
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Mark Keierleber
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Nina Rees
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Richard Whitmire
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Mark Keierleber
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Mareesa Nicosia
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Kevin Mahnken
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Mark Keierleber
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Mareesa Nicosia
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Naomi Nix
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Carolyn Phenicie
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Denisha Merriweather
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Kate Stringer
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Kate Stringer
2017 Charter School & School Choice Weeks

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

Mareesa Nicosia
National Charter Schools Week

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

Mareesa Nicosia
National Charter Schools Week

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

Greg Richmond
National Charter Schools Week

6 Innovative School Leaders Who Are Disrupting Traditional Education

Mark Keierleber
National Charter Schools Week

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

Max Eden
National Charter Schools Week

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

Carolyn Phenicie
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