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 CEO of the New York-based Ascend charter school network. “I would venture most charter-school founders are liberal Democrats who are committed to social justice and would be very troubled by ...

The campus was longer than their school’s. Lecture halls were enormous. Even reading the words on The Arch required nearly bending over backwards. These are some of the things Ascend Charter ...