When charter schools grow and succeed, as Ascend did, they tend to look more and more like private corporations, adopting their hierarchies and habits and acronyms and meeting-speak.

Founded in 2008, the Ascend Public Charter Schools network today comprises nine schools in the Central Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, and East Flatbush. This school year… ...

About 10 years ago, Steven Wilson founded the Ascend charter school in Brooklyn. Ascend is now a network with 15 schools; they serve mostly poor kids of color from kindergarten to high-school age ...

The student population of Brooklyn Ascend Charter School is 1,376 and the school serves K-12. At Brooklyn Ascend Charter School, 47% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math ...

Brooklyn Ascend Charter School State Median. Performance Index. How Brooklyn Ascend Charter School compares with other schools. (100 = state median) Pass Rate. Percentage of students who pass each ...

Steven Wilson, the founder of Ascend Charter Schools, wrote a blog post titled “The Promise of Intellectual Joy,” in which he defended the value. Last month, ...

Ascend Public Charter Schools, the largest Brooklyn-based charter school, announced Tuesday that its network recently received an unsolicited $11 million gift from Scott. Ascend serves 6,000 ...

Billionaire philanthropist and author MacKenzie Scott has donated $11 million to the Ascend charter school system in Brooklyn. Ascend will use the gift to open up new facilities in central and ...

Oakland charter school parents plead to city to remove homeless camp near campus 03:39. Parents, neighbors and faculty members of Ascend Charter School in Oakland are voicing their concerns and ...

Canarsie Ascend Charter School is a charter school located in Brooklyn, NY, which is in a large city setting. The student population of Canarsie Ascend Charter School is 989 and the school serves K-8.

Parents, neighbors and faculty members of Ascend Charter School in Oakland are voicing their concerns and urging the city to remove a homeless encampment that is blocking the school's emergency ...