Recent News
Our Teacher Effectiveness Work Spotlighted in The New York Times (4/13)
New York Times: Helping Teachers Learn
Discusses our teacher effectiveness program and how we support new teachers.
Aspire's Work in Memphis Highlighted by The New York Times!
New York Times: Crucible of Change in Memphis as State Takes on Failing Schools
Interview with Aspire's VP of Technology
Computerworld: Emmile Brack helps deliver analytics to educators
Aspire Working with Community Ahead of School Opening (2/27)
The Commerical Appeal: Editorial: Aspire Public Schools is doing Neighborhood Homework
Aspire Enrolling Families in Memphis
The Commercial Appeal: Aspire Works to Win Over Parents in Memphis
Rethinking High School Turnaround (1/28)
Aspire Celebrates National Freedom Day (2/1)
Rosa Parks Academy Celebrates 100th Birthday of Their Namesake
Preparing for Common Core
Edtech Magazine: Aspire and IT Infrastructure
LAUSD Approves Three Aspire Charters (1/15)
All Statewide Benefit Charters Now Locally Authorized
Aspire Expansion Noted in Top 10 Important Stories on School Choice (12/28)
Education Week: Tumultuous Year in School Choice
Aspire Student Gives Time (1/4)
The Modesto Bee: Young Modesto Volunteer Helps Special Needs Group
Understanding Effective Teaching (12/14)
Comstock's Magazine: Will New Teacher Evaulation Strategies Spread Statewide?
Aspire Recognized as one of the Top Bay Area Education Non-Profits (12/12)
Philanthropedia: Local Education Ranked Non-Profits
Memphis Announcement
Aspire Announced as New Operator for Memphis Public School
Aspire Teacher Residency
The Hechinger Report: In Search of High-Quality Teachers, Charter Network Trains Its Own
Aspire and Blended Learning
Forbes: Personalized Learning on the March
Education Week: Creative Cities: Oakland
Education Week: Blended Learning Models Win Gates Money
Aspire and Innovation
Aspire Receives Teacher Incentive Fund Grant (TIF)
FY 12 (Cohort 4) Awarded Grants (9/28)
Schoolzilla In the News
KQED Mind/Shift: Charter School Network Offers Its Own Data System to All Schools (9/11)
Memphis Planning
The Daily News: Planners Already Looking to Next School Year (8/13)
Aspire focuses on planning time in Memphis to open schools in 2013
Schoolzilla Launches Nationwide
Education Week: Charter School to Share Analytical Tools Nationwide 8/8
Aspire is making Schoolzilla, a tool for analyzing student performance, available for free to any public school around the country that wants it.
Tech & Learning: Performance Analysis Application Offered at No Charge (8/9)
Aspire Offers Performance Analysis Application
Press Release: Launch of Schoolzilla Assessment Explorer
Aspire Expanding Teacher Residency Program
EdSource: Aspire to expand residency program for teachers in training
Aspire Success Serving Special Needs Students Celebrated
California Charter School Association: Shelby's Story
Aspire Schools Rank High on Similar Schools Scores
Modesto Bee: Staunislas County Schools Compete for 10 in Rankings
Lodi News Sentinel: Four Lodi Schools Score High on Tests
Aspire Becomes Country's First Charter Organization to Graduate Students Who've Been Enrolled Since Kindergarten
Stockton Record: 13 Years, 1 School for Grads, 6/9
Aspire Benjamin Holt College Preparatory Academy graduated 8 students who've been enrolled with Aspire since graduation. All 8 students -- like all Aspire graduates -- were accepted to four year college.
ABC News: Oakland School Has Entire Senior Class Move Onto College, 6/12
Every single graduate from Aspire's Golden State College Preparatory Academy has been accepted to college. In interviews, students credit Aspire's commitment to academic rigor and high expectations for all.
Aspire's Approach to Developing Highly-Effective Teachers Highlighted
Ed Week: Matching Teachers to Schools: Lessons from Charters, 6/11
In a study on best practices of high-performing charters, the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington-Bothell found that Aspire and other top charter organizations invest heavily in developing their teachers.
Aspire Announces Expansion to Memphis
Ed Week: Major Charter Operators Move Into Tennessee
Ed Week: Charter Operators Swoop In for Tennessee Race to the Top
Memphis Commercial Appeal: State Approves Five Charter School Groups to Run More Memphis Schools
Lodi News Sentinel: Aspire Public Schools Expanding Outside California
The Daily News: State ASD Charter Schools Unveiled
Ed Week: Prominent Charter Networks Eye Fresh Territory
Press Release: Aspire Public Schools Approved to Serve Memphis Students, 6/4
Aspire has been approved by Tennessee's Achievement School District to open and operate charter schools in Memphis, marking the first time California's largest management organization is expanding outside the state.
Aspire ERES Academy's Blended Learning Model Highlighted
Fordham Institute: Peering Into the Future of Blended Learning
After a visit with the Cities for Education Entrepreneurship Trust, Terry Ryan of the Fordham Institute highlights Aspire success in implementing blended learning at Aspire ERES Academy.
Aspire California College Preparatory Academy Students Head to UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley News Center: Against formidable odds, four from Cal Prep are entering Berkeley this fall
Aspire Cal Prep students overcame incredible challenges, including homelessness and teen pregnacny, to secure admission to one of the country's top-performing universities. Congratulations Cal Prep seniors!
College-Bound Aspire Lionel Wilson College Preparatory Student Honored
Oakland Magazine: Are You Smarter than a 12th Grader?
Aspire senior Jessica Torres is a Gates Millenium Scholar and plans to enroll at either Cal Poly or SF State. She hopes to become a pediatician.
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