Community Conversations with NACSA
Listen to experts in education discuss critical topics that will help to answer questions like, “What can be done to ensure families have access to high-quality education for their children? How can school leaders allow educators the autonomy they need to best serve students? How should schools be held accountable for their performance? And when we say ‘quality,’ what does that really mean?"
Community Conversations with NACSA
A Story of Innovation & Partnership
Tressa Pankovits, Co-Director of Reinventing America’s Schools Project at the Progressive Policy Institute, Priscila Dilley, Senior Officer at the Leadership Academy Network, and Dr. David Saenz, Chief of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at Fort Worth ISD come together to tell a unique and powerful story. The partnership between Leadership Academy Network, Fort Worth Independent School District, and Texas Wesleyan University epitomizes using the principles and practices of charter school authorizing to rethink improving public education more broadly.
Resources:
Leadership Academy Network
Texas SB 1882 Partnerships Program
PPI Report – Putting Students First: Texas’ 1882 Statute Sustains Partnership Schools in Fort Worth