CSDC News

CSDC's Board Vice Chair Ember Reichgott Junge receives not one, not two but three awards in the Readers Views' 2012 Annual Literary Awards contest.

Students at Imagine Andrews welcomed distiguished guests and visitors on Jan. 14, 2013 to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at their newly opened public charter school developed by CSDC on Joint Base Andrews, Md.

National School Choice Week 2013 takes place January 27 - February 2 and will feature 3,500 independently-planned special events across all 50 states.

With the nation's Capitol as the backdrop, national and local pioneers of chartering gathered to support author and CSDC Board Vice Chair Ember Reichgott Junge at the DC launch of her book "Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story."

For two decades, public charter schools have been transforming American K-12 education by showing what is possible and creating an ideal for all schools to strive for. Through their charter agreements, they have greater flexibility to innovate in exchange for greater accountability for student achievement.

Ember Reichgott Junge, CSDC Board Vice Chair and author of the book "Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story," celebrates the 20th anniversary of the opening of the first chartered school in the nation in a blog for the Clinton Foundation.

CSDC is honored to receive a $1,453,806 Financial Assistance award from the CDFI Fund. The award will be used to leverage new capital for CSDC's Mountain West Charter Schools Fund and provide expanded financial products and services to charter school organizations in economically distressed communities in that region.

Ember Reichgott Junge, CSDC Board Vice Chair and author of the book "Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story," speaks at Johns Hopkins University's School of Education.

In this very well researched article appearing in the Fall edition of "Education Next," Nelson Smith makes a compelling argument on why charter school capital financing and the "facilities challenge" continue to be the major obstacles constraining charter school growth nationwide.

The Center for Charter Schools at Central Michigan University (CMU) renamed the Governor John M. Engler Center for Charter Schools in honor of the former Governor, whose leadership in the state created superior charter schools and widespread public support for reform. CMU – the largest authorizer of charter schools in Michigan - is also recognied as the "gold standard of authorizers" in the nation.

CSDC is honored to participate in the Create Jobs for USA program. The grant award will be used to make loans to charter school organizations spurring job creation, expanding educational opportunities for children and attracting additional investment for surrounding economic development.

Education Week reporter Sean Cavanagh discusses "Zero Chance of Passage: The Pioneering Charter School Story," in his daily blog. The new book, written by CSDC Board Vice-Chair Ember Reichgott Junge and co-published by CSDC, will be released next month.

Starbucks and the Opportunity Finance Network® announce new partnerships with Google Offers and Banana Republic to support Create Jobs for USA Fund.

CSDC will be conducting a workshop focused on the various options available to Arizona charter schools for acquiring, developing/building and financing a facility over the "life cycle" of a school, from newly chartered to fully enrolled, as well as replication and expansion to serve additional grades or sites.

CSDC wins the 2011 Wachovia Wells Fargo NEXT Award for Opportunity Finance and a $25,000 grant for "demonstrated excellence in financing" at the Annual Opportunity Finance Network Conference on November 15th in Minneapolis, Minnesota!

Starbucks and the Opportunity Finance Network® teamed up to launch Create Jobs for USA, an innovative new grant program aimed at creating and preserving American jobs. CSDC has been invited to apply for a grant.

Tom Nida, CSDC Board Chair, reflects on the decline and resurgence of his alma mater in Washington, DC.

Ember Reichgott Junge will deliver the keynote address at the Minnesota Charter School Conference on November 3, 2011.

CSDC congratulates client charter schools in Arizona for earning top grades from the Arizona Department of Education

CSDC named Finalist for Wachovia Wells Fargo NEXT Award for Opportunity Finance

CSDC Completes 21 more Charter Schools projects for the 2011-12 School Year

Two Roads Charter School moves into ideal location with the help of CSDC

Alexander Ooms, CSDC Board member and Managing Partner at ClearCreek Partners, reflects on the evolution of education reform in Colorado.

Former President Bill Clinton salutes CSDC Board Vice-Chair and former Minnesota State Senator Ember Riechgott Junge, who authored the country’s first charter school law.

The successful and expanding Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School, which first opened in 'incubator space' in CSDC's Austin P. Frum Public Education Center, has purchase a new site which CSDC will develop as the school's permanent home.

CSDC works with two Baton Rouge charters to convert a bank into a state-of-the-art school to get high schoolers college- and career-ready.

James Goenner, CSDC Board member and President and CEO of the National Charter Schools Institute, comments on the Detroit Charter Schools Plan.

Christianson & Company turns to CSDC to secure facilities financing for International Spanish Language Academy.

Students from CSDC client Washington Yu Ying Public Charter School meet President Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao.

CSDC has received approval for $2 million in Program Related Investments (PRI) from the Calvert Foundation and the Communities at Work Fund.

CSDC has launched the Indianapolis Building Block Fund (IBBF), in partnership with the Indianapolis Mayor's Office, to provide credit enhancements to charter schools sponsored by the Mayor.