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3DE
Entrepreneur: Shayna Gaspard, Niambi Sampson
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
3DE is an Atlanta-based organization that was spun out of Junior Achievement. 3DE is an experiential-learning high-school model focused on connecting students to the real world through business leaders, business cases and career readiness. The research-backed model provides scope and sequence from grade 9 to 12, supporting students to build out their skillset inside and outside the classroom over four years. 3DE serves students in grades 9-12 at six high schools in Georgia today. Plans to scale beyond Georgia are under way, with hopes to reach 25 states in 10 years.
Academy for Urban School Leadership
Entrepreneur: Martin J Koldyke
Nonprofit | Founded: 2001 | Visit the Site
Academy for Urban School Leadership is a school management organization that serves more than 14,000 students in 25 schools in Chicago, IL. AUSL is committed to improving student achievement in Chicago’s high-poverty, chronically failing schools through its disciplined transformation process, built on a foundation of specially trained teachers.
Accel Day and Evening School
Entrepreneur: Jeremiah Newell
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Accel Day and Evening School is the first public charter school in the state of Alabama. Accel Day is based in Mobile and will eventually serve 450 students in grades 9-12. Accel Day aims to re-engage and inspire youth to unlock their academic potential by connecting to students’ gifts and passions through personalized learning pathways. Accel will focus on serving a uniquely venerable population – those who are over-age, under-credit or have already dropped out of schools.
Achieve Middle School
Entrepreneur: Dominique Lee
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020 | Visit the Site
Achieve Community Charter School is a public school that launched in Newark, NJ in Fall 2020. The school intends to serve 320 students at full enrollment across grades 5-8. The vision of the Achieve Community Charter School is to provide a Pre K-12 continuum that fosters the individual needs of students as they develop the skills, character, and values that will prepare them for college and empower them to use their unique perspective as an asset to shape our country’s future.
Achievement First
Entrepreneur: Doug McCurry
Nonprofit | Founded: 1998 | Visit the Site
Achievement First is a charter management organization that was founded in 1998 to serve students in grades K-12 in Connecticut and New York. AF strives to close the achievement gap by ensuring that urban students have access to a great public education.
Achievement First Accelerate
Entrepreneur: Paige MacLean, Dacia Toll
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
Achievement First (AF) is a growing network of 36 non-profit, high performing K-12 public charter schools spanning New York, Rhode Island and Connecticut. The AF Accelerate model is a comprehensive set of instructional materials, scope and sequences, unit plans and assessments for elementary and middle school Math & ELA.
Achievement Network
Entrepreneur: John Maycock
Nonprofit | Founded: 2005 | Visit the Site
ANet is a nonprofit dedicated to the premise that every child deserves an excellent education and the opportunities it provides. They are committed to a vision of educational equity in America by helping schools boost student learning with great teaching that’s grounded in standards, informed by data, and built on the successful practices of educators around the country.
Achievement Preparatory Academy
Entrepreneur: Shantelle Wright
Nonprofit | Founded: 2008 | Visit the Site
Achievement Preparatory Academy is a public charter school serving more than 200 students in grades 4-8 in Washington, DC.
Achievers Early College Prep
Entrepreneur: Osen Osagie, Efe Odeleye
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Achievers Early College Prep is a public charter school in Trenton, NJ that will eventually serve 600 students in grades 6-12. The mission of Achievers is to offer a rigorous academic and personal efficacy program that leads to a college degree. Achievers will use a STEAM curriculum to promote academic success for all learners, ensuring that students access post-secondary education dually with high school coursework and acquire mindsets and habits that prepare them for careers and life-long problem-solving.
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Judy Burton
Nonprofit | Founded: 2004 | Visit the Site
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools is a charter management organization serving more than 9,500 students in 21 schools in Los Angeles, CA.
Alma Fuerte Public School
Entrepreneur: Anne Lee, Sean Markin
Nonprofit | Founded: 2016 | Visit the Site
Alma Fuerte Public School is a public charter school in Pasadena, CA that will eventually serve 400 students in grades K-8. Alma Fuerte’s model is project-based, individualized instruction that leverages students’ passions and strengths toward mastery of 21st century skills, with a focus on entrepreneurship. By graduation, each student will have launched a company of their design and will have faced the challenges of building a meaningful organization from start to finish.
Altura Preparatory School
Entrepreneur: Meaghan Stern, Lissa Hines
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
Altura Preparatory School is a public charter school in Albuquerque, NM that will eventually serve over 300 students in grades K-5. The mission of Altura Preparatory School is to provide every student with access to an inclusive, equitable, and comprehensive, and exceptional college preparatory education. Altura Preparatory School will implement an elementary blended-learning model in ELA and math and experiential and project-based learning curricula in science and social studies.
Amira Learning
Entrepreneur: Mark Angel, Pete Jungwirth
For-profit | Founded: 2018 | Visit the Site
Amira Learning was part of the Expanded Definition of Student Success Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported Amira Learning’s Intelligent Reading Assistant that listens, assesses, and coaches students to accelerate reading mastery.
AppleTree
Entrepreneur: Chavaughn Brown, Anne Malone
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Appletree is committed to closing the achievement gap before children get to Kindergarten. Through its early learning model, Every Child Ready (ECR), AppleTree provides three- and four-year-old students with social, emotional and cognitive foundation. The model supports schools with curriculum, professional learning and assessments and an overall opportunity to expand into pre-K. Today, ECR is delivered to 22 charter schools in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
AppleTree Early Learning Public Charter School: AppleTree Early Learning Teacher Residency
Entrepreneur: Jack McCarthy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2017 | Visit the Site
The AppleTree Early Learning Teacher Residency (AELTR) is an innovative approach designed to prepare novice teachers for a career in teaching through hands-on experiences in the classroom while receiving targeted instruction and coaching.
Appletree Institute for Education Innovation
Entrepreneur: Jack McCarthy
Nonprofit | Founded: 2004 | Visit the Site
The AppleTree Institute for Education Innovation was part of the Early Learning Ed Tech Challenge. Funds supported AppleTree’s Every Child Ready solution and their mission to close the achievement gap before children get to kindergarten by providing the social, emotional, and cognitive foundations that enable them to thrive in school.
Aspire Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Don Shalvey, Gloria Lee, Elise Darwish
Nonprofit | Founded: 1999 | Visit the Site
Aspire Public Schools is a network of 30 schools serving 10,000 low-income students across California. As Aspire’s first institutional donor, NewSchools put up early capital to help the organization get off the ground when no one else would.
ASU Prep Digital
Entrepreneur: Amy McGrath, Michael Crow
Nonprofit | Visit the Site
ASU Prep Digital is part of Arizona State University’s broader efforts to support PreK-12 education within and outside Arizona. ASU Prep Digital currently offers a range of online high school and university courses, and was funded to pilot a holistic high school STEM model for 9th and 10th grade students in 2019-20. This new approach includes five blended science and math courses, a student and teacher-facing digital platform, instructional coaching, and college and career planning.
Atlas Public Schools
Entrepreneur: Colby Heckendorn, Genevieve Backer
Nonprofit | Founded: 2020
Atlas Public Schools will launch in St. Louis, MO in Fall 2021. The school intends to serve 468 students at full enrollment across kindergarten through fifth grade. Atlas is driven by equity and believes that all students should be welcomed, affirmed, and cared for. Atlas’ year-round calendar gives students opportunities to participate in authentic, real-world experiences that are rooted in the local context of their community. This leads to students who are not only academically exceptional, but who are passionate about learning and prepared to thrive in middle school, high school, and beyond.
Bard High School Early Colleges
Entrepreneur: Clara Haskell Botstein, Stephen Tremaine
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The Bard Early Colleges offer public school students a tuition-free, liberal arts college education as part of their four-year public high school program. In freestanding satellite campuses of Bard College that also serve as public high schools, students are taught by college faculty in undergraduate seminars and receive up to 60 college credits and an Associate in Arts (A.A.) degree from Bard College alongside a high school diploma.