Mike Klonsky's Blog

" It has a huge effect on student morale," she said, especially for students who lack needed stability in other parts of their li...

Interview with a Green Dot Animo Justice student and a teacher I spoke with a teacher and a student from Green Dot's Animo Justice Ch...

Here's a list of Green Dot board members who made the decision to close the Animo Justice school. Steve Barr – Founder & Chair Eme...

Green Dot founder Steve Barr originally offered some hope to a struggling L.A. community. He promised a viable alternative to the large, un...

Pedro Noguera: NCLB contributed to de-facto segregation "Where we are now as a country is accepting the idea of segregated schools and ...

Locke, which holds its graduation today, remains a troubled school, and Green Dot's strategy has relied on extra funds that may not be s...

Days after a trend-setting union vote in Chicago , the UFT and Green Dot Charter Schools signed "an innovative and pioneering collect...

How Steve Barr is spending his summer "When I first wrote about Barr three years ago, he said he had no interest in taking Green Dot o...

It was a great victory for Michigan State over UConn in the Final 4 in front of a huge hometown Detroit crowd and the game's heroes we...

My favorite quote this week comes from wing-nut Bill Kristol's column, "Can Obama Save Liberalism" in today's NYT. It go...