Charter Schools

This month the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) ratified a resolution to place a national moratorium on public charter sc

I’m concerned about the growing backlash against what are referred to as “no excuses” schools. Too often, critics depict overly-rigid approaches to discipl

I owe you an apology. I watched you show up in Cincinnati, Ohio for the NAACP’s national board meeting, yearning to be heard by board members, prior to the

It just so happened that I was at the high school fair in Philadelphia when it came over my Twitter feed that the National Association for the Advancement

Black families support charter schools. That’s clear from a number of recent surveys on school choice. In the 2016 Education Next survey, nearly twice as m

The NAACP has always stood for hope, promise, equality and a brighter future. But now it stands in the way of those very things. A proposed moratorium on c

“Is School Choice the Black Choice?” was the question on hand at a panel discussion in D.C. on Wednesday night moderated by TV One News’ Roland Martin, but

Yesterday morning, I stood with hundreds of charter public school parents and advocates in the rain outside of Chicago Public Schools’ (CPS) headquarters t

Three recent experiences have served to remind me how much I miss—and how much the country and the cause of better education were diminished by the loss of