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Tamika Joyner-Lewis, Associate Director, Growth & Community Engagement for Rocketship DC | March 30, 2023

As a native Washingtonian, I was proud to think I knew everything there is to know about services in the District of Columbia. However, in 2018, I was proven wrong.…

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Rocketship Public Schools California Awarded Charter School of The Year

by Rocketship Public Schools | March 21, 2022

Rocketship Public Schools California has been named the recipient of the California Charter Schools Association’s 2022 Hart Vision School of the Year, North. Rocketship Public Schools California serves 6,500 students in grades TK-5th across 13 elementary schools in San Jose and the greater Bay Area. With a mission to eliminate the achievement gap, Rocketship operates…

Rebuilding Trust Through Community Schools

by SaJade Miller, Rocketship Texas Superintendent | February 20, 2022

An abridged version of this piece ran in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Frustration and fear. Those are the dominant forces shaping our experience with public education since COVID-19 took hold two years ago. Of course, parents, teachers, students, and administrators are both frustrated by and fearful of different things. Mask wearing, vaccination mandates, and…

Nine Rocketship Schools Recognized as Among the Best in the Nation by US News & World Report

December 6, 2021

US News & World Report has named nine Rocketship schools as among the Best Elementary Schools in the nation! US News has been the authority in ranking universities and high schools for many years, and this year is the first they’ve started ranking elementary and middle schools. These rankings are based solely on test scores…

Rocketship Infinity Prep Honors Educator and Community Activist Romaine Thomas

by Candice Bobo, Rocketship DC Executive Director | November 29, 2021

On November 18th, we had the opportunity to dedicate the Rocketship Infinity Community Prep campus in honor of local educator and activist Romaine Thomas. Mrs. Thomas is an institution in our community and a true caretaker of children. As an educator, Mrs. Thomas knew that students needed to connect with their own history in order…

Celebrating HBCUs With My Black Students

By Corey Lewis | September 23, 2021

“I want to go to an HBCU because I’m Black and these schools are run by Black people like me.” That’s what Brooke Fairley, a 5th grader, told me recently. College readiness has become the go-to buzzword in K-12 education. Schools across the country emphasize and talk about college readiness curriculum, and how it is…

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