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Backers of these reforms are particularly enamored of a new type of charter school represented by the Rocketship chain of schools — a low - budget operation that relies on young and inexperienced teachers rather than more veteran and expensive faculty, that reduces the curriculum to a near - exclusive focus on reading and math, and that replaces teachers with online learning and digital applications for a significant portion of the day.

The county board's approval will bump up the number of children served by Rocketship Education to more than 14,000 students, a size equal to some of the largest school districts in Santa Clara County.

Two of three schools operated by Rocketship rank among the 15 top - performing high - poverty schools in California, according to Education Next's cover story.

To date, all Rocketship schools are housed in newly built facilities, custom built by Rocketship from the ground up.

• The «blended learning» model of education exemplified by the Rocketship chain of charter schools — often promoted by charter boosters — is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data - driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on test preparation.

Conversions are not about school choice — the local school would be replaced by a Rocketship and students» local district school would no longer exist.

Rocketship also allocates 20 % of its funding to pay steep leasing fees to Launchpad Development Company, which was founded by Rocketship and now owns all of Rocketship's school buildings and facilities.

The case is being appealed by Rocketship and the County Office of Education even though Rocketship has dropped the Tamien site, where a park is currently being constructed by the City of San Jose.

Nashville parents report questionable recruitment practices by Rocketship The blog from the pro-public education website, Tennessee Parents, reports that Rocketship in Nashville improperly enrolled parents who had come to an informational meeting to learn more about the schools.

Ironically, by Rocketship's own standards, they would need to build another school nearby to compete with and replace their own failing schools.

Enrollment of AppleTree@Rocketship preschool and pre-K students is handled by Rocketship through My School DC.

The independent study conducted by SRI, Evaluation of Rocketship Education's Use of DreamBox Learning Online Mathematics Program, was commissioned by Rocketship to measure the impact of online math learning on its students» academic growth in Learning Lab, a key component of the Rocketship Hybrid School Model.

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After 10 years with JustFab, Evan was recruited by and joined another rocketship subscription commerce company called ThriveMarket.com as their CMO in charge of all things digital, growth and acquisition with over $ 100M in revenue being generated.

Last week Rocketship Education announced the results of an independent 16 - week study by SRI International that showed that students who had greater access to online instruction in math, specifically a learning program called Dreambox Learning, achieved significant gains in mathematics scores.

On Top of the News Charter School Forges Ahead with Expansion Wall Street Journal 7/14/11 Behind the Headline Future Schools Education Next Summer 2011 Rocketship Education hopes to open 20 additional hybrid schools in California by 2017, a plan opposed by the local union and school district.

Online and blended learning have the potential to dramatically transform our education system by being able to individualize for each student's distinct learning needs (just look at the results from Carpe Diem, KIPP Empower, or Rocketship Education), but whether it does so will have a lot to do with policy — whether we change the incentives and focus not on merely serving students and micro-managing the inputs, but instead focusing on the student outcomes and leaving behind an antiquated factory - model system for a student - centric one.

Danner: With Zeal, our inspiration was the incredible results we saw in tutoring at Rocketship in our first few years, results validated by a lot of academic research showing how powerful it can be.

These approaches suggest innovations that aren't being batted about by opinion - makers yet, such as redesigning jobs to concentrate top teachers» time on instruction, putting star teachers fully in charge of multiple classrooms, and using technology in combination with in - person reach extension (for one example, learn about Rocketship Education here).

Rocketship uses software developed by DreamBox Learning, as well as programs developed by Khan Academy and others.

Rocketship also participated in a series of foundation - funded case studies on blended learning, conducted by FSG and released in 2012.

Rocketship Education, one of five participants in the May 2014 blended learning report released by SRI International and the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, is widely recognized for operating a chain of schools that are among the top - performing low - income schools in California.

Beyond that, we are working to open new Rocketship schools in Indianapolis and in Washington D.C. by August of 2015.

In California, Rocketship Public Schools are propelling first - generation Latino students to top state scores by combining classroom teaching with individualized tutors and technology — and save money doing it.

They included schools run by Aspire, Rocketship Education, Summit, Alliance College - Ready Public Schools and KIPP.

Rocketship has sidestepped this problem by running 41:1 student to teacher ratios, and padding their numbers using nearly minimum wage aids.

The real evidence about K12 Inc. and Rocketship Charter Schools is hardly positive, but anyone familiar with the needs of students would recognize the inherent problem with the notion that, «students are supervised by monitors, rather than teachers, saving significantly on costs.»

As compared with a holistic educational model exemplified by Washington Elementary, Rocketship's test prep model appears to be failing.

But the charter chain's sky - high student outcomes have not held up: A 2014 analysis by the California Department of Education found that in the previous five years the number of Rocketship students scoring at the «proficient» level or above on California state tests fell by 30 percentage points in English and 14 percentage points in math.

Billionaire Netflix CEO Reed Hastings recently declared that charter schools, like Rocketship, should fully replace public schools by 2040.

Board documents released in November indicate that Rocketship is considering using the Tennessee Achievement School District (ASD) to takeover public schools in Nashville Tennessee by August of 2015.

... Pupils at the nine schools run by the U.S. charter school operator Rocketship Education spend a quarter of their lesson time online, an approach that has provided inspiration for a proposed new academy run by Ark Schools, one of England's largest school chains....

Following the money trail further reveals that Rocketship solicits investments from hedge fund companies by guaranteeing rates of return above 10 %, effectively using public taxpayer money to make rich private investors even richer.

Earlier this year, State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson ruled that charters can not require volunteer hours after a report by Public Advocates found that a third of charters illegally required forced work hours (including Rocketship).

In the November 6th, 2013 Brilliant Minds Planning Commission meeting, Rocketship's Jessica Garcia - Kohl claims that their schools are in the top 5 % of schools serving predominately low income students, a claim which is repeated by CEO Preston Smith their website.

The Santa Clara County Schools Political Action Committee (created by the California Charter Schools Association) and Parents for Great Schools raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the 2012 election — $ 40,000 from Fisher, $ 50,000 from Netflix founder Reed Hastings, and $ 10,000 from Rocketship board member Timothy Ranzetta, among others.

For example, Rocketship purchases its educational software from DreamBox, a for - profit company owned and run by one of Rocketship's co-founders.

Rocketship hopes to ultimately buy the building, but further details «are protected by a confidentiality agreement,» Rocketship said in an e-mail.

Despite widespread criticism, Rocketship hopes to grow by 330 % in the next 5 years, as they move to take market share from district schools Rocketship is planning to open 27 schools in the next five years, more than tripling their...

Instead, it uses the money to pay expensive fees to for - profit organizations that are controlled by the very same people who control Rocketship.

The bill is a reaction to the lawsuit filed by community members and San Jose Unified to stop the Tamien Rocketship project in downtown San Jose.

It rents a building bought and renovated by a Los Angeles hedge fund that partners with Rocketship, but refuses to release financial details.

The flyer has a picture, taken by the Mercury News, of Rocketship students in line with their hands behind their back, with the following caption: «Students are trained to clasp their hands behind their backs as if they are handcuffed and to keep talking to a minimum as they walk to class at the Rocketship Spark Academy on Tuesday, May 27, 2014.»

Progressive Magainze: «Rocketship Lands in Milwaukee» By Barbara Miner on December 08, 2014.

By 2019, Rocketship hopes to have 20 schools in the Bay Area, 13 schools in Tennessee, 4 schools in Washington DC and continue with their solo school in Milwaukee.

The very curricular model that Rocketship employs is shaped not simply by what is good for kids but also, in part, by what will generate profits for investors and fuel the company's ambitious growth plans.

The Morgan Hill community rallied against two proposed charter schools last year, resulting in Rocketship pulling their application, and Navigator being denied by the County Office of Education.

Rocketship Education has seen declines in its pupil outcomes, both overall, and by numerically significant subgroup (LatinoHispanic), in its other charter schools in Santa Clara County.

• Blended - learning schools such as Rocketship are supported by investment banks, hedge funds, and venture capital firms that, in turn, aim to profit from both the construction and, especially, the digital software assigned to students.

They also argued that Rocketship was weakening the democratic rights of parents by placing schools under the control of a private corporation, not an elected school board.