Sam Duell is the Policy Director for Charter Schools at ExcelinEd.
As we continue to celebrate National Charter Schools Week, ExcelinEd Associate Director of Policy Sam Duell highlights seven stories from seven states of people who have founded charter schools to improve their communities.
Why do people start public charter schools? It’s a question you may hear this week as advocates and adversaries debate the charter school movement. But if you talk to many parents of charter school students, you’ll likely discover the “charter” part doesn’t matter as much finding “the best possible fit,” as Miami parent Christopher Collot recently stated.
As you may have suspected, there is more than one answer to this question. I’ll prove it. Here are seven different stories of people who started charter schools in seven different states.
As we can see from this short list, public charter schools are founded by real people to address real problems. Remember that.