Aspire Public Schools is a national nonprofit organization that currently operates 36 high-performing, open-enrollment public charter schools serving more than 15,600 students in under-served communities across California. Aspire is a high-quality public charter school system delivering a rigorous ‘College for Certain’ education to students in grades K-12.
Location: United States, California, Oakland
Employees: 1001-5000
Phone: +1 510-434-5000
Founded date: 1998
Investors 1
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| 09.08.2023 | Charter Sc... | chartergro... |
Mentions in press and media 9
| Date | Title | Description |
| 20.02.2026 | Bill Taft: Don’t stifle charter schools’ ability to innovate | - |
| 12.06.2025 | Schools Can’t Find Teachers. Do States Need More Credential Rules or Fewer? | For Aspire Public Schools in Los Angeles, the turnaround took a couple of years. Coming back from the pandemic, the 11 charter schools serving about 4,400 students saw a steep drop in credentialed teachers sticking with their roles. So rely... |
| 04.11.2020 | Turning Dead Malls Into Community Assets | Photo by Daniil Kuželev on UnsplashDaniil Kuželev |
| 24.04.2017 | Data Sharing Hasn’t Been a Concern for Most Newsela Customers—But Super Users Want More | Improving how student data is shared across systems has been a slowly evolving concern for Newsela since its launch in 2013. The New York City-based startup offers a reading tool that lets students read nonfiction and news articles at diffe... |
| 13.08.2015 | When Schools Create Their Own Edtech Tools: The Story Behind Slate | Across the country, schools want students to focus more on learning concrete skills than abstract concepts. This approach often goes by the name of “competency-based learning,” which emphasizes skill proficiency over grades. (That C+ in Alg... |
| 13.08.2014 | What a Peruvian School Designed by IDEO Looks Like | What happens when a billionaire, an ex-engineer, and an IDEO design team get together to build a school system in Peru? From the outside, it looks something like this: Step inside, and you’ll see bright colors and flexible space. Students e... |
| 21.05.2014 | The Scorecard on Blended Learning | In the last two years, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded $383 million in Race to the Top competition funds to districts implementing blended learning models. But amid the models of success, “how to” guides, and lessons learned, o... |
| 19.02.2014 | How One LA School is Becoming a “Titan” of Blended Learning | When asked about the biggest benefit of introducing technology in the classroom, Aspire Titan principal Kim Benaraw said, “Our kids are reading more.” “Reading online?” I asked. “No, reading real books,” Benaraw explains. “We see more offli... |
| 24.07.2013 | Why one charter school system founded an ed-tech startup | One of the biggest failings of the new wave of education technology startups? Entrepreneurs often fail to forge a relationship with their target market: teachers, students, and parents. So some schools are taking matters into their own hand... |