Category Archives: charters

Mission Accomplished

Posted on August 20, 2018 by Audrey Hill

At a Teach for America fundraiser,  DFER politician and then Colorado Senator, Mike Johnston, tells a story that will be brief because (he jokes) he doesn’t want to keep his audience from dessert.  He launches into a narrative about a scrappy, young, founding principal … Continue reading →

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Testing the hold a community has on its resources

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Audrey Hill

For some communities, high stakes testing is an unnatural disaster…. It’s a means for quietly but efficiently  transferring wealth away from public schools and into private hands… this is euphemistically called #choice but it is really the choice of no choice. … Continue reading →

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