US Immigration Policies and Deportation Affecting Student Attendance Editor’s Note: This article was originally published here, on November 20, 2018 by NBC News and was written by Nicole Acevedo. We realize that politics and immigration laws touch both traditional public school children and public charter families equally. Experts found that in the U.S., deportation fears are…
New 2018 Survey Shows Support for Public Charter Schools is Strong Note: This post from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools was originally published on December 5, 2018, and can be found here. It is a summary of a new report “2018 Schooling in America Survey” by EdChoice. We thought sharing it was a great way to wrap up this…
Charter School Funding Reaching Schools in 38 States Editor’s Note: This post on charter school funding originally ran here, on November 6, 2018. It was written by Christy Wolfe, a Senior Policy Advisor for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (NAPCS)and was published by The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. We are always inspired by…
Is U.S. Education on the Wrong Track? One Study Says Yes Editor’s Note: This article was originally published here, by The 74. The most intriguing finding from this study about how U.S. education affects industries was that 85 percent of business leaders surveyed said one or more market-driven reforms must take place: implement greater school…
Charter School Students Get Recognized by the National Honor Society At Charter School Capital, a big part of our mission is to further the charter school movement and celebrating the achievements of charter school students, so we are thrilled to be sharing this incredibly inspirational story of success! We recently had the honor of speaking…
Halfway through the academic year, one of the nation’s largest online charter schools, Electronic Classroom of Tomorrow (ECOT), is closing abruptly, leaving families of the roughly 12,000 Ohio students scrambling to find other schooling options. According to one Marietta Times article, “ECOT students would have to be accepted by their local public school districts, some…
Charter School Capital, the nation’s leading provider of growth capital and facilities financing to charter schools, reported today that construction of the second building on the Wayne Preparatory Academy (WPA) premises is underway. Located at 600 Tommy’s Road in Goldsboro, N.C., the new 29,396 square foot building will serve middle school students of the charter…
Greg Richmond, the President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA), works with school systems and authorizers nationwide to improve authorizing practices and create great charter schools. In a recent article for The 74, Richmond talks about why the important work of authorizing is often misunderstood in the world of education…
About 15 years ago, charter school leaders decided to up the ante from seeing students through high school graduation and into a four-year college to seeing them all the way through college graduation. Data shows that their efforts have paid off. Now charter school students are graduating from college at a rate of 3-5 times the national average, which in recent years has been at a rate of 59% for first-time,…
Charter School Capital, the nation’s leading provider of growth capital and charter school facilities funds to charter schools, announced today that its facilities arm, American Education Properties (AEP), has purchased the building located at 600 Tommy’s Road in Goldsboro, N.C., from American Charter Development for $9.2 million. Funded earlier this summer, the acquisition provides a long…
