Thirty years ago, as the concept of chartering began to spread nationally, a new breed of public servants were born. Their role: convert the grand vision of chartering into concrete actions associated with charter school authorizing, including deciding which schools should and should not open and monitoring and evaluating performance of schools that did open. Chartering […]
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SEPTEMBER: The Vision for “Chartering”
Today we associate “charter” with a particular school model. But a vision for “chartering” can be traced back tofamed civil rights lawyer, Kenneth B. Clark in 1968. Clark, deeply frustrated by the “pervasive and persistent” inability of public schools to deliver an excellent education, particularly for Black and other vulnerable students, called for an “Alternative Public School […]
30 YEARS OF CHARTERING HISTORY POWERFULLY INFORMS OUR FUTURE
As we look back 30 years, we celebrate the many successes of chartering. At the same time, I fear important history has been lost. We must refresh that history to inform today’s conversation around chartering.
By Ember Reichgott Junge
Press Release: Founders Library Website Launch
The National Charter Schools Founders Library launched its new website today bringing a first-of-its-kind, free online resource of the charter schools movement and its origins to the general public. This comes in celebration of National Charter Schools Week May 9-15, 2021 and the approaching 30th anniversary of the signing of the first charter law in Minnesota on June 4, 1991.
Conquer Politics and Grow the Coalition: Tell Your Story
Presented by Darlene Chambers, Ember Reichgott Junge, Wendy Larvick at the 2020 Independent Charter Schools Virtual Conference.
Library taping at the California State Capitol
History matters. Ideas matter. We’re On the Move and Capturing History at the California State Capitol! The National Charter Schools Founders Library team is collaborating with the Charter Schools Development Center in Sacramento to capture the stories from California’s Pioneers through oral histories and original documents. These will be preserved and made digitally available to […]