The Walton Family Foundation today announced a $25.5 million investment in the KIPP Foundation with the goal of doubling the number of students attending KIPP public charter schools by 2015. The money, which will be provided during the next five years, also is intended to ...More
The popularity and steady growth of the charter school movement is documented in a new market share report from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. According to enrollment numbers from the 2010-11 school year, a record six school districts have at least 30 ...More
The U.S. Department of Education last week awarded charter school grants totaling $4.79 million to 26 applicants in 10 states for planning, program design, initial implementation and dissemination of best practices. ...More
Michigan moved a step closer to removing its cap on charter schools yesterday when the state Senate narrowly approved a bill that would remove numerous restrictions on charter school expansion. The senate voted 20-18 in favor of Senate Bill 618 which now moves to the ...More
Peter C. Groff has left his position as president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS) to become a senior advisor with the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO), overseeing that group’s legislative outreach efforts. Ursula Wright, ...More
American support of charter schools and public school choice options is stronger today than a decade ago, according to an annual poll released yesterday by Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) in conjunction with Gallup. Support of charter schools is at a decade-high 70 ...More
Charter Schools Insider interviewed Craig R. Barrett, president and chairman of the board for BASIS Schools Inc.; Peter C. Groff, president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools; and Steve Mancini, national public affairs director for the KIPP ...More
Several bus loads of charter school leaders, educators, advocates and supporters from across the nation huddled under umbrellas and rainy skies at the Georgia State Capitol building June 23 to rally against the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision to declare the Georgia Charter ...More
Appearances by former President Bill Clinton, Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker, charter school leader Eva Moskowitz, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Children’s Defense Fund founder Marian Wright Edelman fueled the National Charter Schools Conference with an ...More
Several bus loads of charter school leaders, educators, advocates and supporters from across the nation huddled under umbrellas and rainy skies at the Georgia State Capitol building yesterday to rally against the Georgia Supreme Court’s decision to declare the Georgia ...More
The December 2011 issue of CSI examines the impact of blended learning, including 10 reasons why it is a smart strategy for charter schools and insight from Carpe Diem Schools and Rocketship Education. Additional stories focus on crisis management and securing philanthropic funding.
