KIPP AMP, a middle school in Crown Heights, is part of the Knowledge Is Power Program network, one of the most successful and influential charter groups in the nation.
I've written extensively about the underappreciated social and academic benefits of integrated student bodies, so I'm thrilled to see influential charter school advocates embracing the cause.
The president of one influential charter group told the House Education and Labor Committee that the federal government had spent $2 billion since the mid-1990s to finance new charter schools but less than $2 million, about one-tenth of 1 percent, to ensure that they were held to high standards.
"Moorsey is an influential character.
The BBC should reveal the salaries of stars paid more than £143,000 a year as part of a new era of openness under the next royal charter, according to an influential committee of MPs.
The state schools superintendent, Glenda Ritz, on Wednesday acknowledged manipulation in the way Indiana's schools are graded, the latest fallout from a report by The Associated Press that found her predecessor worked behind the scenes to improve the score of a charter school founded by an influential Republican donor.
WASHINGTON -- When it comes to charter schools, the bad ones stay bad and the good ones stay good, according to a report on charter school growth released by an influential group of Stanford University scholars on Wednesday.
Last month, at the age of 62, he left an influential position in the Obama administration to teach at a New York City charter school and to find some answers.
Mr. Charters has just completed a biography of Bebo Valdes, an influential Cuban pianist and bandleader.
At one point, a member of the mayor's legislative affairs staff e-mailed to say he was searching for someone to write an op-ed article supporting the mayor's charter school stance and was hoping to recruit the Rev. A. R. Bernard, an influential pastor in Brooklyn.
