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Last Tuesday night, Mosaica, the Ohio Council of Community Schools (authorizer of five of our schools in Ohio), and STAR Academy (the school we manage in Toledo) co-hosted the Ohio premiere of Waiting for Superman, the highly praised film that won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.  The movie […]

Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been waiting for this day for four years: the opening day of the FIFA Men’s World Cup, in the sport we call soccer but the rest of the world knows as football.  The games are being held in Africa for the first time, with South Africa […]

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We live in an increasingly polarized and toxic environment – and I’m not talking about the drilling rig explosion that has spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.  We see the venom most clearly in politics.  Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House, hypes book sales by saying the current Administration […]

Gene and I attended the NewSchools Venture Fund Summit in Washington last week.  There were 600 attendees, almost all educational entrepreneurs committed to systemic change.  One of the conference highlights was a discussion between Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Representative George Miller, Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee, moderated by Ted Mitchell, […]

Last week, Gene, Dawn, Tom Keane and I presided over a three-day session of the Mosaica Executive Leadership Institute in Atlanta.  Much of the time was devoted to the development of strategic plans and other cerebral pursuits, but a moment of clarity came for me came during a break, while I was talking about a […]

I am very excited to announce one well-deserved promotion and two new members of Team Mosaica: Tom Keane is our new Senior Vice President, Ebbie Parsons is our new Chief Operating Officer, and John Q. Porter is our new Executive Vice President and COO of Mosaica Turnaround Partners Tom Keane has been a member of […]