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Future Schools
Education Next | Summer 2011

Rocketship Education hopes to open 20 additional hybrid schools in California by 2017, a plan opposed by the local union and school district. The charter organization, which already runs three highly successful schools for low-income students, has applied directly to Santa Clara County for permission. Jonathan Schorr and Deborah McGriff wrote about Rocketship in the Summer 2011 issue of Ed Next.