Three local school districts within the Achievement First charter network are on probation, after repeatedly violating the state’s ground rules for operating a public school. The Connecticut State ...

Achievement First is a non-profit charter school network headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded in 2003 by a group of educators who wanted to provide high-quality education to students in ...

A co-founder of the Achievement First charter school network will move on to another job — at a time when its controversial model of “no excuses” schooling is being reconsidered. Doug McCurry, the ...

Achievement First operates a network of 32 high-performing college-preparatory, K-12 public charter schools in Connecticut, Rhode Island and New York City. In keeping with its name, the network is ...

BRIDGEPORT -- Lesson one for Achievement First Bridgeport's eighth-grade class on the first day of school Thursday was a peek at the ground they need to cover this year. While the class of 58 students ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — This month, the first class to go through the Achievement First Providence Mayoral Academy Middle School will be starting the school year with a class of fifth graders, on ...

NEW HAVEN — Richard Buery, CEO of the Achievement First charter school network with its flagship school in New Haven, announced he has accepted a position with the anti-poverty New York City nonprofit ...

NEW HAVEN >> Joel Smilow, the New Haven-based philanthropist, says charter schools are “a very important sector” for philanthropists like himself. Smilow said he knows he can influence the future and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I., (WJAR) — In a Monday morning meeting, the Board of Directors for charter school organization Achievement First approved Mayor Jorge Elorza's request to expand to 3,000 seats. Elorza ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – We now know where Rhode Island Education Commissioner Ken Wagner stands on Achievement First’s proposal to grow to 3,112 students over the next decade. In a recommendation ...

BRIDGEPORT -- Letters have been mailed this week to preschools and day-care centers in the city announcing that 84 kindergarten seats will be available this fall in the new elementary classes at ...