Our Ventures
To learn more about NewSchools' portfolio ventures, scroll down the list below and click on their icons to reach their Web sites. You can also filter these organizations by type, the NewSchools Fund they were included in, and their geographic location. To learn about job openings at our ventures, click here.
Acelero Learning
Acelero Learning is a for-profit operator of efficient and effective Head Start centers across the country. Founded in 2001, Acelero partners with local communities to support the cognitive, physical, social, and emotional growth of preschool children.
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in Los Angeles in 2004 to offer K-12 students a personalized learning environment, including a rigorous curriculum that focuses on interdisciplinary projects and longer blocks of instructional time.
Carnegie Learning
Carnegie Learning is a leading for-profit provider of research-based mathematics curricula for middle and high school students. Carnegie Learning offers innovative suite of curricula and tutoring products based on cognitive psychology research at Carnegie Mellon University and developed by experienced math teachers.
DC Prep
DC Prep is a nonprofit charter management organization founded in 2003 to increase educational opportunities for children in Washington D.C. by operating high-quality schools that emphasize rigorous academics and character development.
Friendship Public Charter Schools
Friendship Public Charter Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 1997 to provide Washington D.C.’s K-12 students with a world-class education that motivates them to achieve high academic standards, enjoy learning and develop as ethical, well-rounded citizens that contribute actively to their communities.
Green Dot Public Schools
Green Dot Public Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in Los Angeles in 2000. Green Dot ensures that its high school students graduate with a sense of personal accountability, cultural and community awareness, the skills necessary to succeed in college, and a passion for lifelong learning.
Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF)
Inner City Education Foundation (ICEF) is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 1994 to provide Los Angeles’ at-risk students in grades K-12 with an excellent education.
Leadership Public Schools (LPS)
Leadership Public Schools (LPS) is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 2002 to serve students in grades K-12. By graduation, all LPS students will have mastered critical thinking, clear and effective communication, personal responsibility, and social responsibility.
Lighthouse Academies
Lighthouse Academies is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 2004 to serve students in grades K-12. Lighthouse uses a Core Knowledge curriculum model that is enriched by character education, phonics-based reading, and an instructional focus on the arts.
New Leaders for New Schools (NLNS)
New leaders for New Schools (NLNS) was founded in 2000 on a simple premise: great schools are led by great principals. NLNS is a nonprofit that recruits talented individuals with strong leadership potential – both from within and outside of school districts – and trains them to become outstanding urban school principals.
Pacific Charter School Development
Founded in 2004 and incubated by NewSchools Venture Fund, Pacific Charter School Development is a nonprofit that identifies, acquires and develops cost-effective charter school facilities that are leased back to academically successful charter school organizations.
Perspectives Charter Schools
Perspectives Charter Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization in Chicago that was founded in 1997 to provide students in grades 6-12 with an academically rigorous college preparatory environment. Perspectives grows educators, engages parents as partners, and connects students to the community.
Success for All
Success for All is an intensive reading program and comprehensive school reform model that achieves proven results in under-resourced urban schools.
Teachscape
Teachscape provides professional development programs to teachers, principals, and school leaders. Founded in 1999 as a for-profit company, Teachscape seeks to to help educators become more effective at raising the academic achievement of their students.
Uncommon Schools
Uncommon Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 2005; the organization operates public charter schools in the Northeast that create transformative college preparatory opportunities for low-income children.
Achievement First (AF)
Achievement First (AF) is a charter management organization that was founded in 1998 to serve students in grades K-12 in Connecticut and New York. AF strives to close the achievement gap by ensuring that urban students have access to a great public education.
Aspire Public Schools
Aspire Public Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 1999 to serve California students in grade K-12. Aspire believes that college prep begins in kindergarten and creates rigorous and thoughtful curriculum that meets this need for students.
Civic Builders
Civic Builders was founded in 2002 as a nonprofit real estate development firm that relieves New York charter schools of the burden of building and maintaining school buildings, allowing school leaders to focus time and resources on educating children.
Education for Change (EFC)
Education for Change (EFC) is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 2005 to provide a superior public education to Oakland's most underserved children by creating a system of K-8 public schools that relentlessly focus on students' academic achievement.
GreatSchools
GreatSchools was founded in 1999 and operates a national Web site www.greatschools.net that helps parents evaluate K-12 schools and find the information they need to help their child succeed.
High Tech High (HTH)
High Tech High (HTH) is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in California in 1999. HTH supports innovative K-12 public charter schools where all students develop the academic, workplace, and citizenship skills for postsecondary success.
KIPP DC
KIPP DC is a nonprofit charter management organization based in Washington D.C. Founded in 2001, KIPP DC runs high-performing, college-preparatory charter schools that that serve the city’s neediest communities with a strong culture of achievement and support.
LearnNow
LearnNow is a for-profit charter management organization that was founded in 1999 to create a network of schools with a focus on math, science and technology skills for low-income children. LearnNow was acquired by Edison schools in 2001.
Mastery Charter Schools
Mastery Charter Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 2001 and serves students in grades 7-12. Mastery operates new charter schools, as well as several “turnaround” schools for the School District of Philadelphia.
Noble Network of Charter Schools
Noble Network of Charter Schools is a nonprofit charter management organization that was founded in 1999 to provide educational choice to Chicago students in grades 6-12 seeking to build a foundation for college success.
Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC)
Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC) is a nonprofit charter management organization based in Los Angeles and serving grades K-12. It was founded in 1999 on the belief that superior schools build superior communities.
Revolution Foods
Revolution Foods is a for-profit school food service provider. Founded in 2006 and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the organization provides healthy food, nutrition education, and operational support to schools in California.
Teach For America (TFA)
Teach For America (TFA) was founded in 1990 with the mission of enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the movement to eliminate educational inequality. TFA recruits recent college graduates who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools in our nation's lowest-income communities.
The New Teacher Project (TNTP)
The New Teacher Project (TNTP) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the number of outstanding individuals who become public school teachers and to creating environments for all educators that maximize their impact on student achievement. Since 1997, TNTP has partnered with school districts, state education agencies, colleges and universities, and other educational entities to accomplish these goals.