Creating Strong School Culture Takes Perseverance
Our team had the pleasure of visiting with our friends at New Dawn Charter School in Brooklyn. New Dawn is one of several “transfer-like” charter schools (for a long time there was really only one, Wildcat Academy—but we now have five others). Running a transfer high school is hard. Starting one is even harder. The […]
Advocacy Day 2013 – Many Stories, One Vision
This Tuesday, more than 1,200 parents, students, school staff and elected officials came together in Albany at the ninth annual Charter School Advocacy Day. Embodying the day’s theme of “Many Stories, One Vision,” participants shared their diverse experiences and called on lawmakers to help charter schools continue their support for great public schools. Speakers included […]
Michael Mulgrew’s One Percent
On Tuesday over 1200 charter school supporters came to Albany to meet with lawmakers and tell our stories. We also carried a simple message: charter schools should be eligible to compete for the full-day pre-kindergarten funding that Governor Cuomo has proposed. You would think that supporters of early childhood education would want every strong school […]
