Hundreds gather to protest against a 5th Rocketship in or near downtown San Jose’s Franklin McKinley School District Hundreds of teachers, classified school workers, parents, and students turned out for the Franklin-McKinley School District (FMSD) Board meeting on April…
Read MoreSanta Clara County Office of Education accuses Rocketship of sending California money to Wisconsin, but “According to the CDE the transfer from the CMO to the Wisconsin school is not prohibited.” Rocketship Los Sueños and Mateo Sheedy are up…
Read MoreDanyela Egorov, Regional Director of the Santa Clara County California Charter Schools Association disagreed with the recent San Jose Inside post that discussed charter school corporations. She posted the following comment: Charters are not corporations they are public schools. Public…
Read MoreRhetoric vs. Reality: The Charter School Debate Continues Reprinted by permission of authors. Originally appeared on San Jose Inside: http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2015/03/30/rhetoric-vs-reality-the-charter-school-debate-continues/ It is rare these days for educators to be in agreement with Santa Clara County School Board Trustee Joseph Di…
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Rocketship this week announced that it would settle a lawsuit filed by 4 local San Jose school districts. We wrote about the lawsuit and its history in a separate blog post. New details about the settlement have emerged that a…
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Rocketship this week announced that it would settle a lawsuit filed by 4 local San Jose school districts. Alum Rock, Evergreen, Franklin-McKinley and Mount Pleasant school districts filed suit against Rocketship and the Santa Clara County Board of Education (SCCBOE)…
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The Franklin McKinley community is preparing to fight back against a proposed Rocketship school in the district. The proposed Rocketship would be the 5th Rocketship in or on the border of the small downtown San Jose school K-8 district. The…
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Earlier this month, ultra-wealthy hedge fund investors gathered in New York City to strategize on how to cash in on public education dollars at a conference entitled, “Bonds and blackboards: Investing in Charter Schools”, as parents from the Alliance for…
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Rocketship has made big promises to their communities, tax payers, and publicly elected officials. But they’ve struggled to keep those promises. Rocketship is a private corporation with privately appointed board members, but receives public funding from tax payers. It’s important…
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Rocketship hopes to gain approval for a 5th school that is in or very nearby downtown San Jose Franklin McKinley school district. A vote is scheduled for April 14th Rocketship’s growth plans are again on full throttle. Rocketship’s billionaire patron…
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