No Superman, but super funding
Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
An infusion of public and private dollars may improve the odds for families to win the charter school lotteries seen in the new film ” Waiting for Superman” – at least in California. Grants and gifts totaling $13 million were announced this week to help two Bay Area-based charter management organizations expand the number of charter schools they operate. Rocketship Education, based in Palo Alto, received $6 million in grants and loan guarantees from the Charter School Growth Fund to underwrite rapid growth over the next five years. (more…)
Also: San Jose Mercury News