This week we are shouting out Abby Worland, Real Time Teacher Coach and Director of Fellow Development at Rocky Mountain Prep, a network of
elementary charter schools in Denver, CO..
In 2006, former software engineer John Danner co-founded Rocketship Education, a national nonprofit
elementary charter school network based in San Jose, Calif., with Preston Smith.
Moskowitz accused Mayor Bill de Blasio of going back on his word to find space for seven
new elementary charter schools in time for them to open in August.
Author Bio: Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of
public elementary charter schools serving low - income communities in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..
Preston Smith is Co-Founder & CEO of Rocketship Education, a non-profit network of public
elementary charter schools serving low - income communities in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C..
At the four high schools on the Brandeis campus on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the sports teams now practice in the hallway because the Success
Academy elementary charter school in the building gets sole use of the gym after school, says Jeff Picca, the chapter leader at the Global Learning Collaborative HS.
A graduate of Loyola Chicago, Ms. Giblin moved back to the Windy City in 2009 to join the founding leadership team of Rowe Elementary School, a college -
prep elementary charter school, where she worked as a teacher, literacy interventionist, and Academic Dean (the founding second grade class just graduated from 8th grade this past June!)
Rocketship Education, a national,
non-profit elementary charter school network, is on the cutting edge of school innovation with a hybrid school model and an operational approach that combines classroom and online learning to create high - performing low income elementary schools.
Founded in 2006 by John Danner and Preston Smith in San Jose, Calif., Rocketship Education is building a national network of high - performing urban college
preparatory elementary charter schools whose mission is to eliminate the achievement gap.
Patrick McLoughlin, the chapter leader at Union Square Academy for Health Sciences HS, said the five public high schools that share space on the Washington Irving campus are being crowded by
an elementary charter school that inexorably adds a grade each year.
As a result, nearly
every elementary charter school offers pre-k.
The DC Public Charter School Board ranks DC Bilingual among the top three
elementary charter schools in the city and The New Teacher Project ranks DC Bilingual in the top quartile of all DC charter schools for its strong instructional culture.
Charter schools also moved the needle on student growth and represented 19 of the top 20 public high schools for academic growth, and
an elementary charter school led the city with the largest math and reading growth among all school types, achieving eighty and ninety percent growth respectively.
EASTON —
An elementary charter school for the arts has been proposed for the former Express - Times building on North Fourth Street in Easton.