The education establishment has created political and public pressure to halt charter school growth over the past few years. Is there a way to return to a collaborative vision between charters and other stakeholders of public education? We talk with Steve Barr about the long view of charters and districts.
Steve Barr founded Green Dot Public Schools in 1999 with the vision of transforming secondary education in California by creating a number of high-performing charter high schools using available public dollars.
In 2010, Steve formed Future Is Now Schools, built on the successful secondary Green Dot Public Schools model, union reform and systemic district change, to take the foundational principles, lessons learned and successes achieved on the local level of Southern California and expanded this base to other communities around the country.
