Is Green Dot A Different Kind of CMO?
The heart of charter schooling is not technical innovation in management or pedagogy, but a social movement – driven by the idea that public schools should be of, by and for the communities they serve. Centralized management contradicts that idea, which is why I’ve been against Charter Management Organizations as philanthropy’s primary investment strategy for scale. Still, some CMOs will work. The Los Angeles Unified School Board’s decision to contract with Green Dot Public Schools suggests it may be one.
