As members of the local school board for three Public Conversion Charter Schools, we have had the privilege of seeing firsthand how the promise of the charter school movement can be fulfilled through visionary and courageous leadership and an engaged school and parent community.

Over the last decade, Ho‘okako‘o Corp. has celebrated Kualapu‘u School's transformation from "underperforming" to making "Adequate Yearly Progress," which is a measure used under the federal No Child Left Behind initiative to determine if schools are successfully educating their students. We have watched the community at Waimea Middle School use innovative partnerships to raise student achievement, and we have cheered the faculty at Kamaile Academy as they plan the high school that will extend their highly personal learning environment from kindergarten through graduation. Login for more...