Policy Implications: At this point in the interview, Speaker Brubaker commends the Charter School Founder’s Library for clearly documenting what has worked and has not worked in the charter school landscape so that policy makers can leverage what is working and avoid what is not. But extension, his comments underscore what didn’t work as a […]
2021
Interview of Harold Brubaker (Excerpt) putting back pressure on political opposition
Policy Implications: A common misperception that policy makers assume in the current environment is that many of today’s charter school opponents never understood or accepted that charter school were going to be public schools. At this important moment in the interview, Speaker Brubaker explains how all parties understood and accepted that the new schools that were to be made […]
Interview of Harold Brubaker (Excerpt) vouchers bill used to push legislation for charters in North Carolina
Policy Implications: Often policy makers fail to recognize that the original intent of charter school legislation was clearly to make a system of school choice within the public school system. In this critical passage with Speaker Brubaker, we hear how a voucher proposal, which was clearly seen to attempting to offer a private school choice program for […]
Why Charters?
This video was constructed from interviews conducted at the 2021 MAPSA event in Lansing, MI. In this video: Phil Pavlov, Michigan Senator and State Representative (2004-2018) Dr. David A. Lewis, Director, School/University Partnership Office, Saginaw Valley State University Dr. Hosep Torossian, Principal, AGBU Alex & Marie Manoogian High School Cassie Williams, Deputy Chief of Education-Michigan […]
Norman Atkins – Bio
View Charter Founders Norman Atkins Co-Founder, North Star Academy (Newark) Norman leads Together Education, an innovation studio that catalyzes enduring, scalable solutions to our most pressing education challenges. He is the Co-Founder former President of Relay GSE, an accredited institution of higher education that annually trains 5,000 teachers and principals nationwide. In 1997, he co-founded […]
Sarah Tantillo – Bio
View Charter Founders Sarah Tantillo, Ed.D Former coordinator of the New Jersey Charter School Resource Center Sarah Tantillo, Ed.D. is the creator of The Literacy Cookbook (www.literacycookbook.com) and author of The Literacy Cookbook: A Practical Guide to Effective Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Listening Instruction (Jossey-Bass, 2012), Literacy and the Common Core: Recipes for Action (Jossey-Bass, 2014), Using Grammar to Improve Writing: Recipes […]
Interview of Norman Atkins and Gloria Bonilla-Santiago
We are pleased to be a part of capturing what one hopes is the first of many of New Jersey’s charter school oral histories as this year New Jersey celebrates its 25th anniversary of charter schools. Joining us are two of the state’s earliest charter school founders: Norman Atkins, Co-Founder of North Star Academy of […]
Gloria Bonilla-Santiago – Bio
View Charter Founders Gloria Bonilla-Santiago Chairperson and Founder, LEAP Academy University Charter School Gloria Bonilla-Santiago is a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Graduate Department of Public Policy and Administration at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She also directs the Community Leadership Center and is the overseer and Board Chair of the LEAP Academy University […]
A Brief Timeline of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Interview of Harold J. Brubaker
2021 marks 25 years of Chartering for North Carolina. To commemorate this milestone the Charter Founders Library invited Harold J. Brubaker, former Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1977-2012) and now Principal, Brubaker & Associates to share his oral history. Interviewed by, former Minnesota Senator, Ember Reichgott Junge.
