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A Life-Changing School For Adults: Meet the Excel Center

Ten years ago, Katie Reigelsperger had zero high school experience. She had a GED she’d earned as a teenager but felt stuck in dead-end jobs. Growing up, Reigelsperger’s parents struggled with...

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Meet a Radically Inclusive St. Louis Community Charter: City Garden Montessori

At City Garden Montessori in St. Louis, Missouri, community comes first. First launched in 1995 as an affordable, private preschool in a church basement, City Garden became a community charter school...

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DC Wildflower Launches Its First Community Charter School: Riverseed

In a quiet neighborhood on the eastern edge of Washington, D.C., a bright yellow house holds a new community charter school. While the two-story residence has been converted into a Montessori school,...

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Charter Schools Helping to Close Harlem’s Achievement Gap

In a New York City school district where a majority of children attend charter schools, those schools serve a larger share of disadvantaged kids and are closing academic achievement gaps. According...

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HBCUs Produce Culturally Relevant Leaders for Black Charter Schools

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), such as Atlanta’s Spelman College, have long served essential roles in the development of Black America -- from producing the first Black...

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Community charter schools earn their spot in public education

I learned years ago that only some schools are for everybody. I was a parent who hit a dead end, and the only school options in our zone weren’t a good fit for many reasons. And then, we found a...

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