Founders Library

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Shavar Jeffries – Bio

View Charter Founders Shavar Jeffries President, Democrats for Education Reform Shavar Jeffries is a civil-rights lawyer and executive leader with over 20 years of experience fighting for equal opportunity and racial justice. Shavar is a partner at Lowenstein Sandler, where he has litigated complex civil-litigation and class-action matters. Shavar also is president of Education Reform […]

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 […]