Celebrating YES Prep winning the Broad Prize

Houston’s YES Prep Public Schools won the first-ever Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools last week. According to an editorial in the Houston Chronicle, The Broad (rhymes with “road”) judges cited YES’ stellar record. They noted that the...

Great Hearts charter school blocked in Nashville

The Arizona-based charter school organization Great Hearts Academies is taking steps to expand into Indiana, Tennessee, and Texas. In Nashville, it’s facing opposition: The school board recently denied Great Hearts’ application to operate charter schools...

Deborah Kenny: “Why Charter Schools Work”

Critics claim that charter schools are successful only because they cherry-pick students, because they have smaller class sizes, or because motivated parents apply for charter lotteries and non-motivated parents do not. And even if charters are successful, they argue,...

Read 3: Children’s literacy at H-E-B

My kids and I went grocery shopping at H-E-B last week, as usual. While we were there, I also saw evidence of the grocery chain’s efforts to improve children’s literacy. H-E-B’s Read 3 program uses the store’s marketing power to spread the...