SAN JOSE — Rocketship Education shot to national prominence by operating charter schools that produced stellar test scores from poor and immigrant students with a model focused on high-energy teaching ...

Parents had until May 1 to enroll their children in schools matched through D.C.’s high-stakes school lottery. But families that selected a new Rocketship charter school in Ward 5 were in for a rude ...

For the next 40 minutes, half the 4th graders here at Rocketship Sí Se Puede Academy, a charter elementary school in a low-slung building nestled below Highway 680, will be split between the language ...

CONCORD — After months of accusations that the Mt. Diablo school district was discriminating against its students and denying them equal access to public school facilities, Rocketship Futuro Academy ...

This week’s profile of Rocketship Schools by NPR blogger Anya Kamenetz (here)--and the detailed response by Rocketship CEO Preston Smith (here)--raises three powerful questions, particularly for ...

Most teachers are young and inexperienced Vast majority have attended prestigious colleges Teachers can do what they love best: Teach big ideas SAN JOSE — Luis Zepeda is relentless. The fourth-grader, ...

REDWOOD CITY — Rocketship Education founder John Danner is stepping aside to return to his roots as a software entrepreneur and develop programs for online learning. Rocketship’s President Preston ...

Construction for the new Rocketship elementary school, a high-tech public charter elementary school in the District, got underway Tuesday in Ward 8. The D.C. Public Charter School Board gave the ...