NewSchools Venture Fund
Below is a list of organizations for whom NewSchools Venture Fund is listed as a donor. Click each to find out more about the organization.
Academy for Urban School Leadership
Specializes in turnarounds of Chicago schools. Critics cite close ties to Mayor Rahm Emanuel and claim he is turning over Chicago Public Schools to ASUL. Hires uncertified teachers -- Teach for America types. ... more
Acelero Learning
Broad, Gates, and the Kellogg Foundation are turning our treasured and successful Head Start program into a for-profit venture . . . literally taking candy from babies. ... more
Achievement First
New York and Connecticut charter school network that hopes to expand into other states. It has been cited for its extremely strict discipline policies and bullying of students. Two parents speak out in the movie The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman. ... more
Achievement Network, The (ANet)
The Achievement Network reform organization collects and analyzes data of poor and minority students to determine the size of the achievement gap. ... more
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Aspire Public Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
College Ready Promise
Charter management organizations (CMO) that have privatized many schools in California. ... more
DC Prep Public Charter School
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Education for Change
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Friendship Public Charter School
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Green Dot Public Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Harlem Success Academy Charter Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classroom of our nation's poorest children. ... more
High Tech High
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Inner City Education Foundation
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
KIPP Academy
Flagship charter management corporation given life by the Billionaire Boys Club and touted as a model by reformers. KIPP schools serve mostly segregated, low income populations and require longer school days, weeks, and years to teach a test driven curriculum. ... more
KIPP DC
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
KIPP NYC
The much touted KIPP school is the "reformers" dream of an innovative school. Force, pressure, top-down interventions, limited curriculum, longer school day/week/year, competition, standardization, testing, uncertified teachers/administrators in newly established schools. That's what KIPP is made of. ... more
KIPP Star
The much touted KIPP school is the "reformers" dream of an innovative school. Force, pressure, top-down interventions, limited curriculum, longer school day/week/year, competition, standardization, testing, uncertified teachers/administrators in newly established schools. That's what KIPP is made of. ... more
Lighthouse Academies
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Mastery Charter Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Noble Street Charter School
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Partnership to Uplift Communities
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Perspectives Charter Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Teach for America
Teach for America is an elitist organization that recruits non-teachers to educate America's most vulnerable students at a premium price. Research shows that the program does harm to children, does not close the achievement gap as claimed, and costs taxpayers millions. Founder Wendy Kopp has no education training or expertise, but she is extremely effective at asking very rich people, corporations, and the federal government for millions of dollars and getting it. Teach for America perpetuates the myth that anyone with a college degree is a teacher. It is a recruiting and placement service. Until 2011, eligibility requirements stipulated that education majors and licensed teachers were prohibited from joining. TFA has gone to great expense to market the company as the “peace corps” of teaching. It is not. Its placements are not teachers and not volunteers. Recruits agree to teach for two years and then move on to a real career. In addition to a regular teacher's salary, TFA placements are given two $5,000 awards to pay for college expenses. The awards are provided by the federal government through Americorps, whose funding is appropriated to aid volunteer organizations in America's poorest communities. An exception has be made for TFA. TFA “teachers” are given preferable access to teaching jobs over regular teachers especially in public charter schools funded by Gates and Broad. TFA hires highly paid administrators, who also are not educators, to “coach” and assist its placements. ... more
The New Teacher Project
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization promotes the employment of personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Uncommon Schools
Although it proclaims that great teachers make all the difference in a child's education, the organization employs personnel who are not trained, professional teachers to staff the classrooms of our nation's poorest children. ... more
Urban Teacher Residency United
Unlike the medical model, residents have not taken education courses, but are placed in classrooms with teachers to practice without requisite teaching knowledge. ... more
