History of IDEA
Jeannie Oakes, Founder and Former Director
Youth Voice in School Finance
NEW REPORT: Los Angeles' road to A-G for all
Without Dollars and Sense Powerpoint
Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Rocketship’s target: 29 charters in San Jose
- 05-26-2011
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Rocketship Education, the charter organization whose hybrid online/classroom model has drawn national attention and foundation dollars, wants the Santa Clara County Office of Education to let it open 20 more elementary schools, primarily in its hometown of San Jose, in the next seven years. Together with the three schools now operating and six already approved, Rocketship would be running 29 schools by 2018-19, an ambitious and unprecedented number of charter schools by one operator serving low-income, minority children in a concentrated area – basically East San Jose, plus maybe a school in Sunnyvale and one in Gilroy. (more...)
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