Expanding the Supply of High-Quality Public Schools
The Bridgespan Group, NewSchools Venture Fund, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have been working individually and collectively with a wide range of school development organizations to increase the number of high-performing centers of learning.
Aspen Institute and Newschools Venture Fund Launch Annual Conference for Education Entrepreneurs
ASPEN, Colo. – August 15, 2005 – The Aspen Institute and the NewSchools Venture Fund have announced that they will establish a joint venture to accelerate the pace of change in public education by connecting and supporting education entrepreneurs and innovators. As a first step, they will convene the first annual “Gathering of Education Entrepreneurs” from August 24-28 at the Institute’s Aspen Meadows campus in Aspen, Colorado.
Hybrid Leaders, Entrepreneurial Solutions and the Transformation of Public Education: Report on the 6th Annual NewSchools Summit
The NewSchools Venture Fund Summit, created in 1999, brings together an important and unique community of leaders from across the education, business, policy, research, and philanthropic sectors to learn about and develop entrepreneurial solutions for the crisis facing our nation’s public schools. In 2005, the Summit brought together over 400 “hybrid” leaders to collaborate and share best practices in education.
Leadership Public Schools Raises $5M To Establish New Public Charter Schools in California
NewSchools Venture Fund investment will help create a system of new small charter high schools in underserved neighborhoods
Managers Team Up to Run Charters
Even before a single student had signed up for High Tech High School, the founders of the new charter school on San Diego Bay knew they didn’t want that first school to be their last.
“We definitely had this idea that we were not going to be an outpost in the wilderness,” recalled Larry G. Rosenstock, the founding principal of the highly regarded 5-year-old school. “We wanted to affect more children.”
NewSchools Venture Fund Names New CEO
Board Member Ted Mitchell to lead next wave of investments for K-12 education reform
Districts Take Performance Strategies Partway
A study of 28 urban districts identified as front-runners in “performance-driven practices,” which are designed to focus their school systems more squarely on student achievement, concludes that even those sites still have quite a way to go.
Anatomy of School System Improvement: Performance-Driven Practices in Urban School Districts
This paper reports on findings from the first year of a three-year research project tracking the adoption of performance-driven practices in urban school systems, made possible with the support of The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Mastery Charter School Receives Grant from NewSchools Venture Fund to Create New Schools in Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA – March 1, 2005 – Mastery Charter School, a nonprofit charter management organization based in Philadelphia, announced today that it will build on the success of its first charter high school by creating several new schools with a new $2.65 million grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, a national venture philanthropy firm based in California that is working to transform public education for underserved students.
A Building Need: Charter Schools in Search of Good Homes
Although charter schools are public schools, and often serve the neediest children in a given area, they rarely receive adequate funding for facilities. While charter schools are expected to deliver improved academic results in return for freedom from many state and local mandates, the lack of facilities financing leaves them competing with traditional public schools on an uneven playing field.