Jeremy Chiappetta

Nov 28, 2023 | educationnext.org | Jal Mehta |Jeremy Chiappetta |Derrell Bradford |Jed Wallace

Driving across tracts of new-home development in El Paso, Texas, one can’t miss the signs of charter-school momentum. New charter-school facility projects dot the landscape. Harmony Public Schools, which now operates 62 schools serving more than 40,000 students in Texas, is bullish on the area. Fatih Ay, CEO at Harmony, explains: “All five of Harmony’s current campuses in El Paso are excelling academically, and we have far more parents seeking our services than we can accommodate.

Aug 31, 2023 | educationnext.org | Brandon Brown |Frederick M. Hess |Scott Pearson |Jeremy Chiappetta

Students are returning to school this year on the heels of another summer of sobering headlines about the nation’s lackluster academic recovery. With multiple indicators showing stalled learning recovery and education policy experts sounding alarm bells at Congressional hearings, we must finally treat lagging educational outcomes as a pressing national emergency.