An Oral History

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• We traveled coast to coast during the first half of 2016, sitting down with more than two dozen educators, school leaders, entrepreneurs and philanthropists to document the origins of America’s top public charter schools — and the web of collaborators who came together to nurture the charter networks that would reinvent American education. The networks represented here are now educating kids across the country, from Los Angeles to Brooklyn, San Francisco to Newark, Houston to Boston, San Antonio to Chicago, the Bronx to the Rio Grande Valley.

  This is a living history; an evolving portrait of America’s public charter schools.

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• Malka Borrego, Equitas Academy Charter Schools

  6 Videos

• Tom Torkelson, IDEA Public Schools

  10 Videos

• Michael Milkie, Noble Network of Charter Schools

  6 Videos

• Norman Atkins, Uncommon Schools

  10 Videos

• Richard Barth, KIPP Foundation

  8 Videos

• Steve Barr, Green Dot Public Schools

  8 Videos

• Linda Brown, Building Excellent Schools

  8 Videos

• Darryl Cobb, Charter School Growth Fund

  7 Videos

• Mike Feinberg, KIPP

  13 Videos

• JoAnn Gama, IDEA Public Schools

  7 Videos

• Kevin Hall, Charter School Growth Fund

  9 Videos

• Joel Klein, Former NYC Schools Chancellor

  7 Videos

• Dave Levin, KIPP

  7 Videos

• Jay Mathews, Columnist

  8 Videos

• Jessica Nauiokas, Mott Haven Academy

  4 Videos

• Emilio Pack, STEM Prep Schools

  7 Videos

• Brett Peiser, Uncommon Schools

  8 Videos

• Nina Rees, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

  6 Videos

• Victoria Rico, Brackenridge Foundation

  4 Videos

• Don Shalvey, Aspire Public Schools

  9 Videos

• Marc Sternberg, Walton Family Foundation

  6 Videos

• Dacia Toll, Achievement First

  10 Videos

• Jamey Verrilli, Relay Graduate School of Education

  7 Videos

• Richard Whitmire, Author

  9 Videos

• Brooke: America’s Best Charter?

  4 Videos

• Oliver Sicat & USC Hybrid High’s First Graduation

  2 Videos

• Diane Tavenner, Summit Public Schools

  Videos

• Derwin Sisnett, Gestalt Community Schools

  Videos

• Seth Andrew and Katie Duffy, Democracy Prep Public Schools

  Videos