Going Exponential: Speeding the Growth of High-Quality
Charter Schools
Featured Speakers:
R. Brooks Garber, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Bryan Hassel, Public Impact
Eva Moskowitz, Success Charter Network
Andrew Rotherham, Bellwether Education Partners
Moderator:
Will Marshall, President, Progressive Policy Institute
Date:
Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011
10 a.m.–11:30 a.m.
Location:
National Press Club
529 14th St. NW
Bloomberg Room
Washington, DC
If you have any questions, please contact 202-525-3926.
Register for this event.
Space is limited. RSVP required.
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The public charter school movement, hindered by major political and financial obstacles, has made slow and uneven progress over the last two decades. Its detractors charge that charters produce, on average, results no better than traditional public schools. Yet no one denies that there are many high-quality charters. As movingly described in documentaries such as Waiting for Superman, these schools are giving hope to poor families desperate for alternatives to the “drop-out factories” that plague many low-income communities.
Charter skeptics and enthusiasts, therefore, ought to be able to agree that it would be good for America’s neediest families have more high-performing charters schools. The question is how to spur such growth.
Please join us as PPI unveils a new study by Bryan Hassel, Emily Ayscue Hassel and Joe Ableidinger of Public Impact: Going Exponential: Growing the Charter School Sector’s Best. The report draws lessons from high-growth organizations in other sectors for charter school operators and management organizations and offers charter operators practical advice for how to scale up.
PPI is also proud to present three distinguished commentators: Eva Moskowitz, CEO of Success Charter Network in New York, Andy Rotherham, co-founder at Bellwether Education Partners and Brooks Garbor Vice President for Federal Advocacy of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
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Actually, I am in favor of districts supporting their traditional/neighborhood schools as fully as privately-backed charters get supported. One shouldn’t have to go through applications, lotteries or testing just to get a good public education. The unequal playing field is appalling.
I am in favor of charter schools and public schools, as an educator differntiation is what we do for students, why not for our families. I agree with Anni that public education should be as supported as charters, not at the expense of them.
[...] Bryan Hassel will be on hand tomorrow (Feb. 17) at the National Press Club, to discuss the paper, along with R. Brooks Garber of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Eva Moskowitz of the Success Charter Network, and Andrew Rotherham of Bellwether Education Partners. For more details, click here. [...]
I agree, Anni. The inequalities in district/charter funding are appalling. Charters get less than 80 percent of district per-pupil funding, have to deal with financing their facilities on unequal terms on top of that, and we wonder why there aren’t more great charter schools! Growing high-performing charters is going to have to start with putting charters on an equal financial footing with district schools.
[...] not just organizational obstacles but also significant political ones. That was the takeaway from a panel discussion on charter schools the Progressive Policy Institute held at the National Press Club today to launch a new PPI report: [...]