American democracy in all its spectacular messiness was on full display Monday night in Iowa. I could have stayed up til the wee hours but I had to get on a bus to Albany at 6:00 AM the following morning for another messy exercise in democracy, known to us as Advocacy Day, a coordinated effort of the NYC Charter School Center and the Northeast Charter School Network (NECSN) to persuade our Assembly Members and Senators to think...

On Saturday, January 30th over twenty independent charter schools participated in C3S’s First Annual Citywide Charter School Fair at the Variety Boys & Girls Club in Long Island City, Queens. Participating schools represented elementary, middle, and high schools from Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx. Over the course of the three hour event, parents were able to explore charter school options for their students while chi...