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Independent Public Charter Schools
There are many independent charter schools who take advantage of the original intention of chartering and use teacher-powered leadership structures. While we know of dozens of these schools we estimate that there are hundreds more across the nation.
Individual schools in this group include:
Exploration High School
Exploration High School (ExHS) – a public school for public good – is led by students, powered by teachers, and rooted in community. Their learner-centered model builds learning into every […]
Anthony Acres School
Anthony Acres is a public charter school through the School District of Mondovi on a 34 acre wooded property on Hwy 37. Our school provides a place-based education through a […]
West Hawaii Exploration Academy
Our Vision and Mission revolve around the cultivation of capable critical thinkers who can solve real problems. It is our investment in student empowerment that will lead to this accomplishment. […]
Milestone Democratic School
Milestone Democratic School is designed by youth for youth. We welcome all, and especially learners who believe in democracy. We create deep learning about this world, and aim to create […]
Living School
Living School cultivates equity by nurturing students to do work that improves their lives, communities, and environment through holistic health, citizenship, & entrepreneurship.
The Riveredge Outdoor Learning Elementary School
Situated on 379 acres of restored prairies, woods, and wetlands at Riveredge Nature Center near Newburg, Wisconsin, the Riveredge School is a tuition-free, public elementary charter school authorized by the […]
High School for Recording Arts
HSRA is a project-based, public charter school that operates within and around a professional recording studio. Students earn time in the studio by completing academic projects in the core learning […]
Prairie Creek Community School
We believe as John Dewey did that students construct their skilled understanding of the world from genuine experiences. They learn math as they run a bodega or quantify the day’s […]
Souderton Charter School Collaborative
Founded in September 2000, SCSC is a learning environment that values and nurtures every child as an individual. Together, parents and faculty develop an individualized learning program to fully develop […]
School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability (SEEQS)
SEEQS offers an interdisciplinary project-based, community-based secondary school experience for Oahu families. SEEQS equips its students with the skills and habits of mind for success in the 21st century, including […]
Rosa Parks Charter High School (formerly Rochester Off Campus Charter High School)
At ROC, students are in the driver’s seat of their own educational experience. ROC is a project-based learning environment. In project based learning, students are able to pursue their own […]
Francine Delany New School for Children
Francine Delany New School for Children believes that students learn best when they are actively engaged in an experientially rich, hands-on program of study in classrooms that serve as working […]
Augsburg Fairview Academy
Augsburg Fairview Academy offers a teen-friendly, and family-friendly, atmosphere in which students are deeply respected and everyone is held to a high standard of personal honor. Students find their place […]
Animas High School
Animas High School prepares all students for college and post-secondary success by creating critical thinkers and engaged citizens through an innovative, student-centered, project-based curriculum. Rigorous academics, where all students are […]
Santa Barbara Charter School
The Santa Barbara Charter School is a parent/staff cooperative with a child-centered approach to education. The school’s curriculum is based on the Common Core State Standards. Elements of Waldorf, Montessori, […]
Shasta Charter Academy
Description of learning program: At SCA, learning is personalized for each student’s learning needs, based on connecting his or her interests, life values, learning styles, strengths, and career and educational […]
Southwest Baltimore Charter School
The following tenets have guided our development of curricula and school culture: Differentiated Instruction – a philosophy of teaching that aims to meet each child where he or she is […]
The Renaissance Charter School
Renaissance has been a leader in national education through its example, outreach and collaboration. It regularly collaborates, via school consortiums, federal grants and through nationwide conferences. As a leader in […]
Wildlands School
A learning community of scientists—students, teachers, and community experts working on a wide range of projects focused on an even wider range of topics. Our science school is a Wisconsin […]
Monarch Community School
Monarch believes that learning happens best when all are working together, (students, teachers, and parents), to develop a rich learning environment spanning home, school, and the greater community. They are […]
Independence School Local 1
Independence School Local 1 is organized around experiential learning through internships and field-based projects and around the natural consequences that come from real world feedback on your actions. Teachers and […]
Laurel Tree Charter School
Laurel Tree Charter School is family-style schooling. We are a small, intimate group of people working and learning together. The entire staff works and plans together for the school as […]
Ember Charter Schools
We use our Teaching Firm, a unique teacher-led organizational model, to be a fun, holistic, ‘college-successful’, career-ready, community-centered, culturally rich and relevant incubator of exceptional human potential where we spark, […]
Chrysalis Charter School
Chrysalis offers a unique program that emphasizes direct interaction with the world rather than a textbook approach. It blends regular classroom instruction with options classes, service opportunities, and natural sciences […]
Explore Knowledge Academy School
The school’s mission is “personalized learning through educational discovery: building 21st century leaders; one project at a time.” Students complete projects in which they incorporate the curriculum standards for the […]
Highline Academy
Highline offers a standards-based educational program to all students. We begin with the end in mind; what should students know, understand, and be able to do. Then we draw upon […]
Discovery Charter School Falcon Campus
Discovery Charter Schools’ educational program is developmental, hands-on, student-centered, and theme-based to accommodate individual learning styles and achievement levels. Teacher-directed parent participation in the classrooms on a regular basis is […]
Denver Green School
DGS is a Neighborhood Innovation School—meaning we implement our own unique program design, approved through a rigorous process by the Denver School Board. Our emphasis on project-based learning allows teachers […]
ConneXions- A Community Based Arts School
The typical ConneXions community member, whether student or staff, is a creative, thoughtful, independent thinker, engaged in learning and willing to be a positive member of the community.
Northwest Passage High School
Our curriculum combines advisory, inquiry driven project based learning, interdisciplinary seminars and expeditions. We strive to teach students to become independent learners with the skills to be successful in the […]
Minnesota Online High School (MNOHS)
MNOHS is an accredited online high school that focuses on building significant learning relationships among students, teachers, staff, and families. MNOHS has developed a unique community school model which uses […]