The Need for Trauma-Informed Schools
What school leaders need to know about trauma-informed schools that serve students, leaders, and educators and how to create a positive learning environment.
Three Legal Cases Charter Schools Should Watch in 2019
The National Alliance's Charter Schools Legal Action Fund will continue to monitor these cases as they develop over the year and others arise.
National Alliance Monthly News - March 2019
The National Alliance has been working closely with the House and Senate to push back against false narratives and ensure that the federal Charter Schools Program receives a boost in funding, among other federal, state, and legal advocacy efforts.
Why Investing in Charter Schools is a Good Idea
A recent study released by researchers at the University of Arkansas, A Good Investment: The Updated Productivity of Public Charter Schools in Eight U.S. Cities, provides key insights into cost-effectiveness and return-on-investment comparisons across public charter and traditional public schools.
Viva Las Vegas for NCSC19
Are you making plans to join us at the 2019 National Charter Schools Conference in Las Vegas? NCSC19 offers charter school leaders, educators, and advocates opportunities for continued learning, the national perspective on the movement, and new connections.
Our Chartering Past Informs—and Shapes—Our Future
When former Minnesota state senator Ember Reichgott Junge first authored the first-in-nation charter school law in 1991, she didn’t realize the powerful forces she had unlocked. She shares her mission to ensure the past is remembered as we look forward in the movement.
Q&A with Kendall Isadore of The String Queens and KIPP DC
To get a closer glimpse into the women of The String Queens, Kelsey Nelson talks with violinist Kendall Isadore, the orchestra director at the KIPP DC Valor Academy.
The Power of Doing
Latoye A. Brown, CEO of Audubon Schools and a participant in the School Leaders of Color convening, discusses serving as an educational leader in the post-Katrina landscape and shares her experience.
Can Good Curriculum Transcend the Charter-District Divide?
A few years into the open source curricula experiment, we are starting to see that teachers across school types will embrace quality content regardless of its origin—and that a home-grown school curriculum can compete with big publishers when it comes to quality indicators.
Born to Be A Teacher
Science teacher Lynne D. Holcomb-Gober shares why she loves teaching at Friendship Charter School's Blow Pierce Elementary & Middle School and how she gets her students involved and interested in science.