Grant aims to address shortages and strengthen support for youth.

The National Alliance for Public Schools honored a bipartisan group of 19 state and local lawmakers with the 2023 Champion for Charter Schools Award, recognizing these leaders’ commitment to seeing public education and charter schools thrive and expand in their state.

When I first joined the League five years ago, after spending the prior decade working with charters in Arizona, I was immediately struck by the community nature of the Colorado charters. In Arizona, I felt every charter was only focused on themselves and there was no collective effort to support the sector.