Some organizations are committed to a cause. Everyone knows exactly what they stand for. Look at Greenpeace—everybody knows that they’re about reducing human harm to the environment. All of Greenpeace’s resources go towards...
Category - School Choice
Happy Anniversary, Mastery Charter Schools. Congratulations! To celebrate our 15th anniversary, we held a banquet and fundraiser to recognize our service of and partnership with Philly kids, families, and communities...
Anti-education reformers are some of the most interesting people I know. They often reminisce about and allude to a time when schools and systems worked for our communities. I try to follow them, but their recollections seem to...
Recently, our School District’s Charter School Office recommended that the School Reform Commission, (Philadelphia’s school board) accepts Shoemaker’s charter renewal application. This means that the Shoemaker Campus’s...
For many years, the School District of Philadelphia, anti-charter groups, and even high performing charter schools, demanded that charters be held accountable for student achievement. They are right to demand this. Just as...
“With great power, comes great responsibility.” The conditions of our schools clearly communicate to us that we need authentic vanguards for our communities. Although many (vote hungry politicians, district employees...
Last week, the Charter School Office (CSO) of the Philadelphia School District, recommended that the school I have led and served, Mastery Charter-Shoemaker Campus, charter be renewed. This was a highly contentious issue...