Robin Lake and Alice Opalka write on the importance of collaboration between school districts and charter schools in this piece for Education Next.
Alice Opalka
Research Analyst
Research:
Alice Opalka is a research analyst at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, where she works on projects related to portfolio strategy, cross-sector collaboration, system governance, and more. Before joining CRPE, Alice was an Education Pioneers Fellow in Los Angeles, an AmeriCorps volunteer coordinator at a children’s literacy organization in Los Angeles, and a college access mentor with College Access Now in Seattle. Alice holds a BA in Environmental Analysis from Scripps College, and an MPA from the University of Southern California.
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Jun 10 2020
A new brief summarizes our findings from a review of COVID-19 response plans of 477 school districts across the country.
Jun 15 2017
Robin Lake and Alice Opalka discuss the importance of cross-sector cooperation when it comes to replacing low-performing schools.