Zero Chance of Passage:  The Pioneering Charter School Story  was a top award winner at the May 8, 2013 Midwest Book Awards in Bloomington, Minnesota, winning the Current Events/Political Science Division, the Education/Learning Division, and for Total Book Design.  The book wa

After spending hundreds of hours studying in the library “stacks” as a law student at Duke University Law School in Durham, North Carolina, I never dreamed I would return as an alumni author 36 years after graduation in 1977.   What an honor to return to campus to speak, just in time

I was delighted to learn today that Zero Chance of Passage, The Pioneering Charter School Story won several top awards in the 2012 Reader Views Reviewers Choice Awards.  They are: · Winner, Midwest Region · Winner, Special Conversations Award for Best Regional Book of the Year (This w

On January 29 I joined the National School Choice Week Express in Chicago on its Whistle-Stop Tour across the nation.  And what a celebration it was!  Despite the pouring rain outside, Chicago’s Union Station was teeming with charter school parents, teachers and students.  Their passi

If you are passionate about charter schools and want to help spread the pioneering charter school story and its lessons for today, there is an opportunity for you! Ember Reichgott Junge, the Minnesota state senator who authored the first charter school law in the nation, recently publ

It was like a trip down memory lane when I joined Judy Corrao for a lively edition of the Judy Corrao show, to be shown Sunday, January 20 at 7:30 p.m. on Metro Cable Channel Six. Judy remembered well when Ember traveled her pioneering legislative journey to pass charter school legisl

For me, it was like coming home after twenty years.  No, not to New York City.  Home to DFER:  Democrats for Education Reform.  Home to a group of Democrats across the country who share my passion for education reform and improving America’s public education system so all students hav