Unions and Charters, Can We Get Along?

As a charter school board chair it was a jarring call.  “The teachers are unionizing, they have the votes” the school leader’s voice rattled on the other end.  This call would start a long journey, that would change some of my thinking on unionized charters, and I hope eventually change the minds of the union…


Transfer Student Voices and Hope for a New School and School Year

A lot of work with schools, you don’t know if it matters, you think it does, but so many problems, complaints, and structural issues.  Sometimes, though, you hear from kids and those doubts are shaken aside if only for a few moments. These are voices from our students (full disclosure I am a trustee and…