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Rocketship Schools Coming to an Urban Area Near You Soon « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Rocketship Schools Coming to an Urban Area Near You Soon « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:


Rocketship Schools Coming to an Urban Area Near You Soon

Rocketship Plans to Build an Education Empire According to a December 28, PBS NewsHour Report (See Link below.)
In a 9 minute TV PBS NewsHour report Rocketship  CEO John Danner stated that Rocketship Education’s  goal is for a million students to be attending their schools. This would be over 1600 schools nationally. If they contract the same lucrative deal that the City of  Milwaukee gave them , sending $600,000 annually back to national headquarters in San Jose, this will be nearly $1 billion profit annually  for Rocketship Education. Short-term they want 46 schools up and running in five years, eventually growing to 50 cities.
Rocketship clearly strives to be the largest chartering management organization in America. But with this