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See below for the latest news articles about NewSchools Venture Fund's work, as well as press releases from the organization.

  • National Venture Captial Association Joins NewSchools Venture Fund to Raise K-12 Education Infrastructure Fund
    Financial and Human Capital Will be Invested in Education Entrepreneurs

    May 7, 2008 – Santa Clara, CA – The National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and NewSchools Venture Fund today announced the creation of a multi-million dollar philanthropic venture fund focused on improving education in the United States. The NVCA-NewSchools K-12 Education Infrastructure Fund will invest in start-up organizations aiming to build high-performing public schools by developing innovative human capital solutions and performance tools. The Fund was officially opened at the NVCA Annual Meeting in Santa Clara before an audience of more than 700 venture capitalists. >

  • Opinion: Graduation Madness
    Original Article

    By Ted Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer of NewSchools Venture Fund and and Jonathan Schorr, Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund. As seen in the Washington Post, April 6, 2008. Odds are, your bracket for the NCAA men's final didn't match up Butler and Western Kentucky. But that's the way it would go in an alternate universe where graduation rates, rather than baskets scored, decided the game. As it stands today, only one of the schools in this year's Final Four, North Carolina, manages to graduate a majority of its players -- or more than a third of its black players. >

  • Mathematica and CRPE Selected to Lead National Research Study on Charter Management Organization Effectiveness
    Leading researchers to assess impact of fast-growing type of school organizations

    SAN FRANCISCO, CA – March 17, 2008 – NewSchools Venture Fund and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced the launch of an ambitious new longitudinal research study to measure the impact of nonprofit charter school management organizations (CMOs). >

  • NewSchools Venture Fund Invests $1.7 Million in Uncommon Schools
    Grant boosts organization's impact on public education in New York and New Jersey

    SAN FRANCISCO – January 9, 2008 – NewSchools Venture Fund today announced an investment of up to $1.7 million in Uncommon Schools (Uncommon), a nonprofit charter management organization that provides an outstanding college preparatory education for students in New York and New Jersey. Coupled with earlier grants by NewSchools, this funding will help Uncommon to build upon its initial success in closing the achievement gap in these geographies by developing more than 20 additional schools over the next ten years. >

  • Opinion: The schools that Katrina built
    How New Orleans could end up saving public education in AmericaOriginal Article

    By James A. Peyser, Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund. As seen in the Boston Globe, October 14, 2007 The flood waters that submerged New Orleans two years ago also sank the local school district. What had been a system comparable in size to Boston's, with more than 60,000 students and 125 schools, resurfaced in the spring of 2006 at just a fraction of the size, with only 11,000 students and 26 schools. >